#sfhe

Hey there! Its posting day so I can finally share this on here as well as in ao3.

Thank you a lot to @stellarfirmafanevents for organizing this whole thing.

WHAT IS THIS EVENT?

This event is an opportunity for fans in the Stellar Firma community to share festive love with others in the fandom! We’ll be creating fanworks for each other based on prompts, the finished products of which to be posted on the 28th December.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

In the sign-up form, you’ll be asked to give three prompts. Someone will be randomly assigned to fulfil at least one of these prompts, and they’ll have about two months to finish their work, whether written or drawn. Everyone will be creating something for someone, as well as having something created for them.

Let’s look at an example of what this will look like with David and Trexel as the hypothetical giftee and gifter respectively!

DAVID 7:

PROMPTS:

 - Bathin/Self-Insert’s first date  - Beach holiday (space edition)  - Shrimp colours

    As you can see, the prompts can be whatever you want them to be (so long as they’re SF related), they don’t even have to be very specific!

In this hypothetical situation, Trexel can choose any one of these prompts to create a fanwork for, as long as he finishes at least one piece by the deadline. He could do fanart, he could write a fic — he could create literally anything, as long as it matches at least one of these prompts!

However, until posting day, Trexel cannot tell David that he has been matched to them. The giftee cannot know who is making a fanwork for them until it is time for the works to be revealed. This way, it will be a surprise.

SCHEDULE FOR 2022:

 - 15 October: Sign-ups open

 - 1 November: Sign-ups close

 - 3 November: Matching period finishes and assignments are released to gifters

 - 15 November: Check-in 1

Writers: 250+ words written, with a good idea of the rest of your fic

Artists: Idea of intended composition, a start made on lineart

 - 1 December: Check-in 2

Writers: 500+ words written, on track to finishing before the deadline

Artists: Lineart mostly completed, preferably colouring begun (but this is not an absolute requirement)

 - 20 December: Deadline for finishing works

This is a whole week before the posting day, just in case

 - 28th December: Posting

An AO3 collection will be created

A posting guide will be distributed

Please also post art on AO3 into the collection

As this is a short event, if you need to drop out at any point, please contact the mods as soon as possible, so we can get a pinch hitter to stand in for you. We’ll want them to have enough time to create something for your giftee, so no one will go without a gift :)

WRITERS:

Minimum requirement: 1 fic, minimum word count 1k

You can write more than one fic if you would like to work on more than one prompt.

If you are writing more than one fic, the minimum word count for each drops to 750

ARTISTS:

Minimum requirement: 1 fully-coloured piece

The piece does not have to be digital art (e.g. watercolour, embroidery are also welcome), but you must provide a good quality photo/scan of the finished piece

You can create for more than one prompt

If you are creating for more than one prompt, they can be lineart instead of fully-coloured pieces

ANIMATORS:

At least one piece of animation (any medium)

There is no minimum requirement for amount of frames/length of piece, but it must fulfil the prompt

Animations do not have to be coloured

MISC CREATORS:

If you would like to create, for example, moodboards or playlists for your prompt(s), you must create at least 2

Anything else will be judged on a case-by-case basis, when in doubt, reach out to the mods with your idea

PINCH HITTERS:

If a creator drops out of this exchange, we will need people who can pitch in to ensure the recipient in question will not be left without a gift

Minimum requirements:

Writers: at least 1 fic with a 750+ word count

Artists: at least 1 finished lineart piece (i.e. not a sketch)

POSTING:

There will be an AO3 collection that you will be able to post your works to: you must have/create an AO3 account in order to participate in this event. You may sign up without having one, but you must have an Ao3 account by the time of posting. Further details about the collection will be shared with participants closer to posting. Participants are also welcome to post on Tumblr and mention @stellarfirmafanevents​, we’ll do our best to reblog everything.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Please include an image description for all artworks. If you need help writing one, feel free to ask for assistance on the Discord (do not post your work publicly until the reveal day, for help with an image ID, send the piece to your helper via DMs).

POLICY ON NSFW:

NSFW content will be allowed in this event, but minors will not be allowed to create/request NSFW content. Similarly, adults can opt out of being paired with minors (as giftees/gifters), as we are aware that both of these are things people are not always comfortable with.

NSFW Content must be kept to the correct channels on Discord and tagged/rated appropriately on AO3.

POLICY ON FANDOM PURITY/WANK:

In the words of Rusty Quill itself, ‘all headcanons are valid’. You can create or request whatever ship, smut, etc you want, as long as all NSFW content is kept to adults. Fandom wank has no place in this event, and while we will not be performing background checks, any harassment and/or bullying of participants will not be tolerated. 

We will give you as many warnings as we believe necessary, but should any kind of unacceptable behaviour continue after such warnings, you will be excluded from this event for the next two years (including this one).

If you wish to understand why you have been excluded from the event, or why you have been given a warning, we will be happy to discuss it with you, but please note that harassment of mods is likewise untolerated.

ID: A digital drawing of a seven-panel comic, the first six being two rows of three, the last panel being a larger picture covering the full bottom third of the image.

The first panel is of the partly obscured profile of David 7, pushing a red shopping cart with his right hand while holding someone's hand in their left. The mysterious hand-holder has deep sea green skin, a purple pillowy shirt cuff, and bright purple boots, which are the only parts of them visible. David is wearing a light purple shirt with a dark purple collar and cuffs, an orange waistcoat with thin dark orange stripes, light green trousers, and bright orange and bright green shoes. Only the bottom half of his face is shown, with pale grey skin and wild dark brown hair. He is smiling slightly, and quietly singing, "I just wanna be."

The second panel shows the top half of David, wide-eyed and with a slight frown. The word "freeze!" is behind him in the comic-onomatopoeia sense. Thought bubbles show them saying, "The smell of a deadly concentration of alcohol... The sound of swearing... The feeling of dread and anger... Could it be?"

The third panel shows David peeking around the corner of a grocery store aisle in the freezer section. They are shaking slightly as an offscreen voice asks, "David?" You can now see they're also wearing a neon green bowtie.

The fourth panel is of Trexel Geistman, a very short, white man with a brown beard and bright purple hair that has dark brown roots in an unintentional, grown-out kind of way. He's wearing two pairs of sunglasses (one round and lime green, the other pink and star-shaped), a lab coat with the cuffs of two other shirts showing underneath it at the wrists, light brown trousers, and neon blue and pink shoes. He is clutching a large assortment of brightly colored bottles and tubes of lotion and moisturizer and crying, "David!! David it is you!"

The fifth panel shows David, looking positively gobsmacked and stuttering out, "T-Trexel?" as Trexel talks in the background, saying, "See, I was thinking David, 'Where is that smell of dread and anger coming from?' I can practically smell it on you David, have you washed recently?"

The sixth panel shows Bathin Galactonium cutting off Trexels words of "It's alm-" with "Trexel?" Bathin has deep sea green skin, dark blue hair, sunglasses, and a light purple shirt that has a deep v.

The seventh and final panel shows all three characters, stood in front of a picture of one of the freezer aisles of a Costco. Trexel is slightly backing away, quietly saying, "Oh no." Bathin is walking toward Trexel, saying, "Trexel! How've you been dude? You doing good bro? Buddy? My guy? My dude? Bro?" Behind him, the cart having been abandoned, is David, holding a frozen fish above his head and angrily striding toward Trexel. The fish is labeled as being six dollars and ninety cents. End ID.

My Stellar Firma Holiday Exchange piece for @disclaimer-performatico! I had a lot of fun drawing their Trexel, haha~

My very first Stellar Firma fic! T-rated despite the title.

Trexel attempts to tell David about a date he's had with a squid in the Cosmic Lounge. He then proceeds to peg David. Except this is Stellar Firma so not the way you expect.

The Stellar Firma Holiday Exchange is over! I had a great time writing this and am having a great time making my way through the AO3 collection.

If you’re interested, please follow the link in the reblogs and fill out the form. Beneath the readmore, there is a quick guide to the form to help you out in case you get confused :)

Also, if anyone is interested in signing up as a pinch hitter as well as/instead of being a creator, this is also included in the form! It is perfectly possible to sign up as a pinch hitter without also signing up as a creator, so don’t worry about it.

Better sign up quick! The form closes on 1 November!

This is a gift for @scienceandstarlight as part of the Stellar Firma Holiday Exchange. I have to say that it was a delight participating and I hope y’all had a fun holiday season.

This year, we ran our inaugural Stellar Firma Holiday Exchange (a festive event where fans create fanworks for each other- for more information, check out this post here: https://theallknowingowl.tumblr.com/post/662952532751056896/hello-and-welcome-to-the-inaugural-stellar-firma). We genuinely didn’t expect as many people to sign up as did, as this was the first year of an event for a relatively small fandom. Still, somehow, 16 of you signed up and produced 18 fanworks of fanfic and fanart alike, all to spread the love of our little podcast in our lovely fandom.

Today we’re going to take a moment to list all the marvellous works created for this exchange so we can give them the love they deserve! Click here for the link to the Ao3 collection (https://archiveofourown.org/collections/SFHE21), or read below for individual links to each one :)

However, before we begin, I’d like to take a moment to say thank you. At the start of this event, it was just me (Mod Tako) and my laptop. Of course, I couldn’t have done all of this without coding help from Mod Franzi (@franzis-frantic thoughts whose first event with the team is coming up soon!), and the beautiful art above from Coot (@ulyssesthescribe , otherwise unaffiliated with the mod team), but otherwise it was just me, my spreadsheets, and my burning need to see more engagement and content for and from the Stellar Firma fandom.

And my goodness, you delivered.

I couldn’t have possibly done this without everyone involved being as wonderful as they were to work with, so a sincerely-felt thank you from the heart, from your loving Tako. Now, only a few months later, our mod team has expanded to four people (and hopefully more soon!), and we’re working on a Discord server dedicated to our events (next up: Stellar Firma Anniversary Prompt Month!). Thank you, everyone who has taken part.

And now on to the fanworks! Enjoy, and may the Board preserve and keep you :)

The Trial of... by HavenJunde (@havenjunde) for general_body_pain (G)

So, you want to know the story of how I, Trexel Geistman, worked things out with Bathin? Well, let me set the stage: I.M.O.G.E.N. as judge, Harry from IT as the bailiff, I (Trexel Geistman) representing myself as prosecuting lawyer, and David 7 representing Bathin as the defending lawyer...

David's Place First Annual Holiday Hangout by KiroAngel (@kiroangelica) for arazmis (G)

David 7 spends their first Stellar Firma Holiday running and defending their Holiday Hangout Party from their hapless boss.

I.M.O.G.E.N's holiday by general_body_pain for TheAllKnowingOwl (G)

After the fall of Stellar Firmer I.M.O.G.E.N finally had time for that well deserved holiday

Disregard (Album Cover) by rcbirdy (@rcbirdy) for Almu_de_Nada (T)

IMOGEN is turning security footage of Trexel into album covers again...    

An Entirely Uneventful Trip to Space Costco That Definitely Didn't End In Someone Almost Losing Their Cool Sunglasses, Bro by thetasteofsunshine (@thetasteofsunshineonyourtongue) for KiroAngel (G)

David 7 and Trexel’s awkward accidental awful family/ex-coworkers reunion post-series, right in the middle of getting groceries

David's Fact Corner - ep 8: Catenaries by Almu_de_Nada (@disclaimer-perfomatico) for ocean_of_ink (G)

David 7 records an audio blog about the most efficient kind of free-standing structure

A look at Hartro's crafting by Almu_de_Nada for ocean_of_ink (G)

Hartro paints a chicken figurine.

David's Place nouveau poster by Almu_de_Nada for ocean_of_ink (G)

little profits by darklingundersky for angelbloggerwithabox (T)

--REVIEW--

LOCATION: David's Place [formerly Office #8945123125] REVIEWER: Trexel Geistman (Citizen Employee #362884; Department Unknown) COMMENTS: It's awful! Possibly the worst place I have ever been, and I'm Trexel Geistman, so I've been a lot of places. They don't even serve alcohol. I mean, really?

A Meet-Cute at David's Place by arazmis for thetasteofsunshine (G)

Holiday gift exchange for thetasteofsunshine! I hope you like it and have a wonderful holiday season <3

we find many simple beauties by TheAllKnowingOwl (@theallknowingowlagain) for Franzis_Frantic_Thoughts (G)

Hello and welcome to- Daaaavid’s Fact Coooorner! Where I, David, give you the facts! The only audio blog run by a clone- but not for long! Um. Hopefully.

IMOGEN and I are very grateful for the submissions everyone sent us, and we’re definitely glad we took your advice. This month’s planet we visited on the- well, a lot of you suggested it to us, so here’s today’s episode on Mossvook!

Best of Frenemies by Pezzythecat (@pezilla) for SchmokSchmok (T)

Trexel found something in the archives called 'They Pipes' David 7 doesn't know what he expected... about as much plot as a standard episode of stellar firma really. with just as much spelling mistakes as you would normally expect ... but now with pictures.

SQUID DATE DETECTED. PEGGING INITIATED. by Franzis_Frantic_Thoughts (@franzis-frantic-thoughts) for Pezzythecat (T)

Trexel attempts to tell David about a date he's had with a squid in the Cosmic Lounge. He then proceeds to peg David. Except this is Stellar Firma so not the way you expect. 

I'm a little drunk on you and high on summertime by angelbloggerwithabox (@angelbloggerwithabox) for darklingundersky (G)

Bathin plans a perfect beach day for David 7, giving them all the love and appreciation they deserve. 

Time Bots by ocean_of_ink (@scienceandstarlight) for HummelArt (G)

Request from Velorina Bloodgood, from Internal Affairs, Second Vice President of the Entertainment As An Opiate For The Masses division. She wants us to write a pilot for a holovid show. 

Art! In space! by Eituoe (@eituoe) for rcbirdy (G)

All across the known universe, travelers. And planets.

Also Trexel somewhere but nobody wants to think about that.

New World, Old Ghosts by HummelArt (@HummelArt) for Eituoe (G)

David 7 and I.M.O.G.E.N. arrive on Galactonium to start a new life, but they carry their memories with them.

purely therapeutic steps taken (no underlying intention) by timstokerlovebot (SchmokSchmok) for HavenJunde (G)

Trexel is in a state (probably excited, possibly agitated, David-7's not sure), David-7 takes matters* into David-7's own hands.

*Trexel, Trexel is the matter