The Essential Failure Artist

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Crossposting this from pillowfort. Here's a list of my most valuable fanwork. Note: lots of this stuff is NSFW or has controversial material:

• A Visit with Strong Sad - my first completed and published fanfic, written when I was 19, under the name Hysterical Woman. It's a disturbing little horror that somehow came true.
• Dating Other People - another Homestar Runner fanfic but a completely different mood. Actually got a fanfic rec on tvtropes for some reason.
• Weirdoes in Paradise - A long-form H*R work. Pom Pom takes everyone to his tropical homeland where he's a prince. Plus there's a girl I claimed wasn't a Mary Sue but she is. Forever unfinished.
• Strong Sad Emails (AO3 mirror) - back in the heyday of Homestuck Runner, people would make their own email series via wiki pages. I did Strong Sad. Wasn't very good at keeping it appropriate.
• Hemophobia - not my first Homestuck fic but my first one (about Dave missing Bro) aged like milk. Little cute if gross Karezi fic.
• Lady Mary Heartskill's Squiddles! (Thread 1, Thread 2, AO3) - my reader-prompt fan adventure from MSPAchan. Surreal adventure intercutting between a typical Squiddles cartoon and the travails of the OC creator of Squiddles. Despite the source material it's pretty blue.
• eXperiment Aradia Continuation (AO3) - despite the title, it is not a sequel. I did some bloodswap sprite edits on mspachan and folks said "you should write a story!" which is what I desperately hoped they would say. I put it on googleDocs because that's how Red Dead Virgo was done. This is a great story but a terrible fanfic and that really bugs me. It's forever unfinished but I completed the first arc.
• Eridan and his fuckin etchins - I went on trollmegle and harassed people as Eridan and occasionally I created gold but lots of times it's just very 2011.
• My Motherfucking Best Friend - the fanfic that 4chan hated! the one that made me almost want to end it all! basically, gamzee hits rock bottom and karkat becomes his moirail (this was before the Great Pap so kudos me). lots of serious stuff in this. Finished but in a rough way. Also of note is Revisiting "My Motherfucking Best Friend".
• Big Bright Beautiful Star - another finished work! Tavros is forcibly assigned the job of adult film performer yet somehow this becomes about Gamzee being yandere. Go fig. Features not one but three endings!
• The Tentacles of Power - An alternate Act 6 where the magically aged-up cast travel to a universe where Condesce has just croaked and take power. Their attempt to change the empire fails...or at least would fail if I hadn't given up. Still worth a read.
• And We're All Stuck in a Depression - an ambitious 1930s humanstuck AU I started and hope to revamp someday.
• "Consent is Sexy" mini-fills - a reverse request thread I did on homesmut. Small stories about kink negotiation.
• Ticket to Ride and wHaT iS tHiS i DoN't EvEn - two Gamzee fics in the same verse. Gamzee is a juggalo priest in a troll/human Earth. In Ticket to Ride, he has sex with Dave as part of temple prostitution but gets pissed at how irreverent Dave is. The second fic is a prequel where Gamzee has a sexy but unhappy black relationship with Equius.
• A Visit with Strong Equius and The Lottery - April Fools crack
• don't go on casual encounters... - my Horuss-Rufioh-Damara love triangle unfinished novella-length work. Features raceplay. I would say it's controversial but nobody has complained yet. My icon comes from this work.
• HSWC 2014 Bonus Round - there used to be something called the Homestuck Shipping World Cup. I competed one year under the barely-surviving team PalePitch. These are the short fills I did.
• When Capricorns Write Badfic - hillarious little chatlog fic where Gamzee writes some violent spite fics for Equius' favorite show, The Adventures of BROKEBOW.
• I chime in, "Haven't you people ever heard of opening the goddamn door?" - a fridge fix-it fic
• Now Let Thy Motherfucker Go in Peace - someone on homesmut wanted a fic where GHB fucks Gamzee and Equius and I wrote 22,714 words of existential crisis.
• February in August - I prove I can write femmeslash.
• That's what dormm8s are for - I write the same scene in two POVs and have all the kinks. all of them.
• The Zahhaks Go to a Wine Bar - Little humanstuck comedy between Horuss and Equius. In this, I create another nachoship verse. There's a sequel and a prequel you should also check.
• Touch me not - Kankri has autism-related sensory issues. actually got an inspired work out of this.
• Protocol - a fabolously popular kink work.
• Stuck in a Reincarnation - A jaded take on reincarnation romance, starring Gamzee and Equius and Nepeta
• leakedroyalmovie.mp4 - a masterpiece of a chatlog
• Gin tastes like lavender - see, I can write femmeslash AND the 1920s!
• I didn't sign up for a Tennessee Williams play - a GamTav fic I SWEAR I'll finish.
• Homestuck Music Videos - I have made many canon montage videos set to music (mostly Garbage because I LOVE SHIRLEY MANSON)
• Utena Music Videos - also I love Revolutionary Girl Utena and also Garbage again
• FA Plays UT - I recorded myself playing Undertale long after anyone cared. nobody has watched this all. not even me.

That's not a short list, is it? Dang.