to the stars through difficulty

it’s the end of the year, which means it’s time for a work round-up! this year i really tipped into being podfic heavy (and more multifandom!). if you haven’t yet, check out my 2019 roundup, 2020 roundup, and 2021 roundup! all works are ordered in chronological posting order.

part one | part two | part three | part four | part five | part six | part seven | part eight

i rule with the velvet tongue | Schitt’s Creek | Steve/Ruth | explicit | 789

Ruth takes Stevie apart 

[podfic] Natural Selection | Schitt’s Creek | David/Patrick | 0:32:31

David is a penguin. Obviously so is Patrick given that human-penguin pairings are rarely successful in business together, much less romantically in business together.

[podfic] twist yourself around me | Schitt’s Creek & Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | David/Rebecca | multivoice | 0:10:27

He’s seen her here before, he’s pretty sure, but this time, her friends have left her sitting alone, having wandered off to dance or drink or fuck. His friends have done the same, and he’s just drunk enough and lonely enough to approach her. Not that he never approaches strangers in the clubs. On the contrary, he does it with enough frequency that it would be alarming if he stopped to think about it (so he never stops to think about it). Those interactions, though, rarely involve many words, all sweaty bodies and hands and tongues. Something about this woman makes him want to strike up a conversation. So he slides into the seat across from her.

[podfic] kiss me beneath the mistletoe | Schitt’s Creek | Alexis/Twyla | multivoice | 0:12:58

twyla’s body magically produces plants whenever she feels any strong emotion, but she has it completely under control. that is, until she meets alexis rose. now what is she supposed to do with all these roses?

[Podfic] Through Someone Else’s Eyes | Schitt’s Creek | Alexis & David | multivoice | ~0:27:00

It’s all Mr Hockley’s fault.

The tea was supposed to get him high, not make him wake up in his sister’s body.

[Podfic] a lifetime of promises | Schitt’s Creek | David/Patrick | multivoice | 06:06

Their wedding song is playing at Brebner’s.

No, not their wedding song; their song. Not that David would ever try to claim the downright divine masterpieces of Tina Turner — he generally believes that couples having “songs” is cheesy and off-putting — but dammit, if anyone earned a song, this song, it’s him and Patrick.

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or, sometimes you have a mini breakdown in the ice cream aisle of the supermarket, and that’s okay

Crawl Before You Can Walk | Schitt’s Creek | David/Patrick | 10:18

The continuing adventures of Ted the Turtle.

but it’s golden | Schitt’s Creek | Rachel/Heather | ~3.1k

Rachel knew that going back to Schitt’s Creek meant she’d see Heather again. What she didn’t expect was spending the weekend with her.

Femslash February: Chapter One | Schitt’s Creek | Alexis/Ruth | 100

rainbow

Femslash February: Chapter 8 | Schitt’s Creek | Ronnie/Moira | 100

fashion

jakeperalta

romance in film gif meme: [5/5] kisses

“they seized each other by the shoulders, hugged mightily, squeezing the breath out of each other, saying, son of a bitch, son of a bitch, then, and easily as the right key turns the lock tumblers, their mouths came together, and hard, jack's big teeth bringing blood, his hat falling to the floor, stubble rasping, wet saliva welling, and the door opening and alma looking out for a few seconds at ennis's straining shoulders and shutting the door again and still they clinched, pressing chest and groin and thigh and leg together, treading on each other's toes until they pulled apart to breathe and ennis, not big on endearmeants, said what he said to his horses and daughters, little darlin." (brokeback mountain by annie proulx)
brokeback mountain (2005) dir. ang lee

our-queer-experience

hey for pride month lets talk about slavic queer cultures and latine/latino queer cultures and african queer cultures and asian queer cultures. something that’s not western centric.

anyway reblog with your country’s culture!

up-in-flames-writing

Oh my fuck! Someone actually mentions queer slavs for once? & it isn't to demonise us for the actions of our governments? Hi, hello! I'm a Polish transman/transeksualista, & I know that the situation in Poland (& in Russia) is fucked for my fellow queers, but not all slavic countries are like this.

I live in the UK for my own safety, but my culture means so much to me as a queer person. For one, the way our language works is inherently gendered, & I love all of my enby Polish siblings who play around with pronouns & gendered verbs & gendered adjectives & all that. My language forces me to misgender myself all the time, but it also lets me gender myself correctly without having to go off on a tangent about my pronouns & I LOVE THAT.

My history is also so important to me as a queer person. Once, in the distant past, Poland was the safe haven of Europe. People of all religions, creeds, & backgrounds were allowed into the country (even the Ottomans, who we have fought against for years). I want to exemplify that history through my blog, & my presence being a safe haven for all queer people. You're a queer Arab? You're welcome. Queer Jew, queer latine, queer American, queer whatever? You're welcome here! You're a he/him lesbian? Hi, welcome! You're a no-op transfag? I love you! You're gay & a third gender, like Two-Spirit? All fucking welcome! You're a multispec gay or lesbian? Yes! Straight & aroace? Yes!

It's not just that history. Poland was the first to have a female King, & that's so fucking queer. Our folk dress is something that I, as a masculine person, adore (like, imagine a Slavic drag king & tell me that wouldn't look fucking amazing). The history of our suppression & oppression, the 123 years where we didn't exist but we hid & we still fought to keep our culture & language alive, is so reminiscent of queer history. If my ancestors could, why can't I?

My religion, too. I am a Slavic pagan, a Rodnover by choice. I looked at the religion that colonised my country, that was forced onto me, & I rejected that, just as I reject the cisheteronormative life that I once led. For a god of nature, everything is transcient. Is a gay man worse than a straight man when Mokosz created creatures & plants that do not care for sexuality at all? Is fighting for trans rights really that bad, when every year Veles & Perun battle, & their mad chase through the sky brings about the changing of the seasons? Aren't we heading towards a new season of the world, where trans people are allowed to bloom in peace? All because we are fighting for what is right. And don't we all have a bit of dark & a bit of light in us? Aren't we all, in a way, eternal, forever existing as specs of space dust? Our enemies will remember us as the Czernobog of our lives, the darkness personified, but our allies will love us & remember us as the light like Bialobog the personification of all light. My gods are forces of nature, explanations of processes ancient humans knew little about, but those same humans were so much smarter than we can be nowadays. They understood that if something happened, it was natural, willed by the gods or brought about by magical forces. That in the wild, there are things they do not understand, & sometimes they do not have to understand it at all, because somethings are not to be understood by human minds.

My culture is such an integral part of my identity as a queer person. I love my language, I love my history & the culture that has been born of that history. I am isolated from much of my culture for my own safety, & every day my heart yearns for the plains I was born in, for the mountains that overlooked by childhood, for the smell of the air & the warmth of the wind. But I think this is important to talk about too. I have created my own idea of how my culture impacts my queerness, & one day I will go back home, & I will find my family & my kin waiting for me, ready to hear my story.

Until then, I have to watch from the sidelines, but I do wish to find out more about the culture that is present in my country. Do we have our own hanky code? Do we have our own gay bars? Have we reclaimed any slurs? I want to know all that as well!

aimeegbbs

PRIDE MONTH CELEBRATION WEEK ♡ DAY 2: MOVIE
↳ DO REVENGE (2022)

fionagallaqher

Just remember that there is nothing wrong with asking for what you deserve.

ALEXIS ROSE in SCHITT'S CREEK (2015 — 2020)

harveyguillensource

Harvey’s bold fashion on display in his style spread for The Hollywood Reporter 😍

emblazons

PANIC! AT THE AIRPORT (BY MIKE WHEELER)

Mike Wheeler in S04E02 - Vecna's Curse
aka: In the Closet (at a lot more than rink-o-mania)