Would you like your creation on display in a museum?
Would you like to help a super awesome PhD candidate complete her dissertation?
Would you like a great excuse to further procrastinate that thing you've been procrastinating?
All of these and more are great reasons to participate in Affirmation/Transformation: Fandom Created, an exhibition at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art. (You do NOT need to be an artist, or even someone who creates art to participate!) Write a story, write a song, design a cosplay, create a fancy manicure, make a meme, make a stop-motion video, choreograph a dance, make a SuperWhoLock gif fic, or anything else your heart can dream up.
Your creation must follow only one rule: It must be inspired by a fusion of 1. any fandom of your choice, and 2. one of the featured Haggerty pieces (click the link to see them!)
Completed works are due July 1, 2024. The exhibition will run August 23rd-December 22nd, 2024, and will be available to view in person and online.
To see the Haggerty pieces, and to sign up to receive email reminders about the fan event, visit https://epublications.marquette.edu/fandom/Affirmationtransformation
"We are whoever we choose to be. And I have chosen to be the one who takes things away from you — if only out of obligation. You know how it is."
(Artwork by @fineanddang. Reposted with permission.)
Came up with some twist-villain!Dedf1sh level music. We don't yet know what to make of Acht and Marina's shared history, so I'm envisioning some kind of self-imposed grudge tempered by her own morbid curiosity.
The reason Dedf1sh allowed herself to be ensnared by Tartar was because of Acht's desire to hone her music-making craft, right? If this process took place after Marina heard the Calamari Inkantation, then those two events could be linked.
If music can reformat the minds of a thousand soldiers and compel a dear friend to leave it all behind; to leave me behind... then what else can music do? How can I harness that power to my own ends? What if I could make the Inkantation my bitch?
Acht Mizuta may have perished down there in the Deepsea Metro, but her sense of purpose did not.
In the cut below all the artist and writers featured are tagged. Remember to also check out @ecto-implosion and the #ectoimplosion2023 for more art and fics!
Artist @cookietastic Writer WhereOnceIWasFire
Artist @moonfoxgazer Writer deathchrist2000
Artist @omegasmileyface Writer @nanaarchy
Artist @wheatcak3 Writer ContraryNonsense
Artist @spookberry Writer @lixxen
Artist @minnowmarsh Writer @blobghost
Artist @roadstostray Writer @lavendarlily
Artist @amanellow Writer @avaritia-apotheosis
Artist @ghosttrolls Writer @roundaboutnow
Artist @strawberry-requiem-art Writer @marce-most-of-the-time
i'm not sure how many dsmp fans realize just how much fan music is out there. like we all know derivakat and cg5's stuff, and yeah it's fantastic but there is so much more
precious jewel amor has so many dsmp songs with the most heart-wrenching lyrics i've ever heard and beautiful music to accompany them. and they have music for characters that don't always get a bunch of recognition! cbad enjoyers, try listening to savior. cPuffy has Empty and Do It Again. cNiki? You bet! try Hidden in the Depths, Nothing to Lose, or the cNiki AND cJack song, Hate (Heal). ALSO PJA uses repeating motifs across songs to show relationships between characters which just. Amazing!!!
Amanda Fagan has the same range of characters, and her sound varies from sweet and simple ukulele to highly-produced. cCrimeboys enjoyers, listen to their relationship progress through Please Don't Make Me Choose, Play With Dynamite, and Sunken and Shattered. cJack fans, enjoy Bittersweet and Invisible. And I can't forget the SBI song, When Nothing Mattered More Than Friends, ft. other artists such as seiggel, butterscotch bread, and...
Mizz Fish! My god, their voice is so incredible, and they have some of the most creative songs I've seen! Try a song detailing cRanboo's inner monologue inside of his panic room. Or the most beautiful ballad mourning L'manburg.
this post is getting long but. seriously, if you enjoy fan-made music and/or are searching for more dsmp content to consume, check out kroh, megan shumway, Kanaya, ellienort, seiggel, butterscotchbread, Frankie!!, Hator, spirental, trashyinferno. there's so much out there, and you can hear the passion put into these songs. they deserve to be heard!
(Also, most of these artists have original music out too, which you should also absolutely listen to!)
Music I made for a theoretical Crypt of the NecroDancer | In stars and Time Crossover! I might make more of these cause it was fun! And I'll probably post it to youtube eventually!
This song has very strong medieval or early baroque vibes and I decided the best way to let that shine was to make it a simple instrument solo. You're hearing taped piano (yup, parts of the piano are wrapped in materials to mute or alter sound), which I think seems like a distant cousin of harpsichord or early experimental pianos but also feels modern like a synth.
Originally, there was no song planned for today.. but while working on my next planned release (coming soon!!), I got a bit of art block, so I decided to record a lil smth to re-energise myself!
After six hours straight of recording, mixing, yada yada, I'm happy to present
May I present for your entertainment: Confession - a song in which Garak tries very hard not to tell his doctor that he loves him.
So yeah, I wrote a Garashir love song yesterday and I'm actually so pleased with how it has turned out! I'd love it if you gave it a listen because it's been so fun to fit all the references in, and if you do enjoy it, do reblog or comment - even if it's just to share your favourite line, I'd super appreciate hearing any thoughts you do have 🥰🥰
(I wish I could improve the quality of the recording, but I'm too excited to share it to have the patience to wait for a perfect run or learn how to edit audio 😅)
Lyrics:
I'm unused to writing confessions,
The truth was never really my style.
My dear, I fear, your patience will have no reward
If you want lack of guile.
Though given all our history,
You may enjoy the mystery...
Is it untrue to tell you I love you?
A deception when I show that I care?
The truth is in the lies
And if you have to ask why,
Then I guess you don't know me, my dear
Skill can grow with enough practice
Into a tough second skin;
It takes a delicate touch to get down to the guts
Of veiled thought, if you know what I mean.
No exam could ever unmask
Why it is I'm forced to ask...
Is it untrue to tell you I love you?
A deception when I show that I care?
The truth is in the lies
And if you have to ask why,
Then I guess you don't know me, my dear.
So I'll not let your passion enthral me,
Nor will I cherish your intellect.
Your charming smile I'll call juvenile --
Would you argue that I should do less?
It's simpler to conceal it,
So how could I reveal it?
Is it untrue to tell you I love you?
A deception when I show that I care?
The truth is in the lies
And if you have to ask why,
Then I guess you don't know me, my dear.
I do not bow
To the stars all around:
My dear doctor, the fault is in me --
I can't say how I feel
Without making it real,
So let's just pretend that I did.
The King Salmonid who all Fish Sticks aspire to be. The first Griller to surpass their mortal coils and ascend to a state far more... eldritch. A grotesque autonomous collective and yet a ruler in its own right. The aquatic roi des rats of the whirlpool's roil, whose name shall not be uttered. The worlds worst maypole by far, 0/10.
And yet there are sea creatures far worse, and far scarier, out in the unknown depths... beyond the splendour of the tempest; the sandbank’s luring smile. Encircled by flopping hordes of mindless and amorphous dancers, lulled amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
I HAVE BEEN POSTING THIS EVERYWHERE BUT YALL I JUST FINISHED MY LAST DAY OF RECORDING FOR MY RE4R TRIBUTE ALBUM TODAY!!!!! SO MY ALBUM IS FINISHED BEING RECORDED OFFICIALLY! Now we are moving onto the mixing, mastering and editing process!!!! The day of release is still tbd but estimated to be sometime towards the end of APRIL SO GET MOTHERFUCKING PUMPED!!!!!!!!
before you do anything, click the damn link. or not, im sorry. im working on it.
YOU GUYS! its OUTTTTTUH its out its out its out!!!! OVER *99* TRACKS FEATURING *69* "HOMED STUCK" MUSICIANS COMING STRAIGHT FROM BANGER-TOWN TO BE DELIVERED RIGHT INTO YOUR EARHOLES!
yueah whatever this thing is awesome I GOT FUCKING COVER ART DRAWN FOR MY MUSIC WHATTTT!!!!! AND I GOT TO HELP DRAW STUFF FOR SOMEONE ELSE AS WELL!!!! this was so much better than i coudlve ever wished for as a first dip into the fanmusic scene.... i really think a lot of talented people came together to make something awesome and it WORKED!!!! the amount of bangers this thing holds is insane, i swear on fucking eeverytuihng that is holy, go listen to it. if you like ANYTHING about homestuck, there's something you will like, 100%.
YOU CAN WATCH THE LIVE STREAM WITH CHAT REPLAY HERE