Bumbleby Big Bang: Nov 18-22
it’s been a crazy two weeks guys but sadly………. the bumbleby big bang has come to an end (for 2020 at least!!) – and WHEW. what an incredible ride. you guys have blown me away with your talent, with your enthusiasm, with your hearts. I never expected this little event to grow so big and so beautiful and like. wow. rock stars, every one of you. I can’t wait for next year!! 💕💕💕
fic by @dazzleyourmindseye
Eager to share a piece of her culture with her team, Blake invites Yang, Ruby and Weiss to a festival on Menagerie - a night of dancing, bonfires, and celebration of faunus heritage. Afraid of moving too fast and fracturing their newfound romantic relationship, Yang has been struggling to reign in her intense feelings for Blake – both physical and emotional. Blake is unsure of how to help her girlfriend loosen up – but a night of romance by the sea and under the stars just might do it.
fic by @letsseethroughdaphneblue
Everyone’s looking for something on the Remnant Cross-Continental Trail. Hiking from one end of Sanus to the other is no small feat. Most seek adventure, some go looking for themselves. Blake knows she’s looking for the latter, while Yang has convinced herself adventure is all she’s after. Over what feels like the longest and shortest months of their lives they confront past demons and admit to harsh truths. They start to find themselves in the trail and in each other along the way.
My entry for the 2020 Bumbleby Big Bang! A canon-compliant “what if,” set in Volume 7 and following Yang and Blake as they make the jump into their first date. It’s a long night as they dance around accepting their love for each other, while their friends all reflect on how far they’ve come…and how far they may yet go.
While this is a stand alone piece, I also intentionally wrote parts of it to call back to an older Bumbleby fic of mine. I won’t drop the story name, but if you’ve read it, then maybe this will read as somewhat of a sequel. If you haven’t read it, don’t worry! I specifically made sure this story stands on its own.
AU: Blake is disillusioned: with her career in the White Fang Ballet, with her oppressive boyfriend and ballet master, and her life in general. A chance visit to the Shattered Moon Circus, however, introduces her to trapeze artist and aerial dancer Yang, who offers to teach Blake how to fly. As she learns to let go and trust in the people who catch her, she falls in more ways than one when it comes to Yang.
“Blake,” Sienna says, calmly. “Have you lost your goddamn mind?”
And maybe she has. After all, Blake can’t just run away and join the circus.
art by @celestialstariart
As the daughter of a Count to a nation of Faunus citizens, Blake Belladonna has to deal with blurry memories from a past life and finding an arranged marriage to protect her people from harm as their country’s King has been violently replaced and they are swept into an empire against their will.
Yang Xiao Long appears to be the only option Blake has left, but there’s something about her inky black hair and ferocious red eyes that seem unnatural on her. Yang is feared by almost everyone, but the more Blake learns about her new wife, the more familiar she becomes.
And why does Blake dream of golden hair and lavender eyes?
when i dream of dying i never feel so loved
fic by @thecousinsdangereux
Yang dies. She wakes up. She fights. She dies. The world stays the same, the situations barely change. Yang wakes up, she fights, she dies. She also falls in love — one repeated day at a time — with the one woman on Remnant who could possibly understand, even if her memories of Yang are erased with each reset. (Yang gets used to the dying, not so much the look in Blake’s eyes that marks her as a stranger.)
I’ll never leave you, even if it’s me. Yang makes a promise in spite of fate; fate makes her regret it.
Eight teenagers run away from home, bound by a duty to return for a ritual in which one of their lives will be traded for the rest of the world’s peace. At least, that’s what they’ve been led to believe since birth: Be strong, be smart, and be alone. If you are to die, it is an honor.
Eight teenagers run away from home, and upon returning nine years later, they’ve broken a few too many rules to go quietly.
(Blake thought she was seeing things, then. Thought she loved a girl so much she made her a god, mythologized her, created a folktale so gorgeous and enormous it’d surpass the one they actually lived in. Now she knows she wasn’t.)
Yang Xiao Long is a captain in Vale’s army. King James Ironwood is sending her on a dangerous mission after discovery of Yang’s betrayal. An immortal beast lays in wait for Yang as she attempts to rescue missing people from the kingdom, rumoured to have settled in the middle of the forest under no rule. The more Yang learns about Vale and King Ironwood, the more she wonders if the missing people had the right idea, immortal beast or no.
Yang Xiao Long has seen it all at Patchwork Bakery. Engagements, graduations, birthdays, she’s baked a cake for it all. At least until she gets an order to celebrate the breaking off of an engagement. When she delivers the cake to a certain Faunus, she has no idea how her life will be forever changed. But life isn’t a recipe to follow step by step, and sometimes life requires baking from the heart.
