CLICK ON OUR BUNDLES TO SEE WHAT’S IN EACH!

The RvB Fanzine, ROSES AND HYDRANGEAS, is a fanzine that combines our favorite Reds, Blues, Mercs, and Freelancers with the language of flowers! And the best part: 100% of the profits will be donated to The TREVOR Project!

By going to our Big Cartel page, you can see what each bundle has to offer. There will also be a period AFTER September 12th (when Pre-Orders end), to get a PDF version of the Zine. The whole price of the PDF, whichever tier you choose, will be donated entirely to the cause! Thank you so much for your support, you can message any questions through our website’s “contact” page!

RvB Rare Pair Week

With the departure of the old mod of @rvbrarepairweek from tumblr, we at fanvsfic have been given permission to take up the mantle of moderating this important fandom event. We hope it’ll be just as good as the years prior!

From May 10th to the 17th, we are celebrating rare pair ships of all shapes and sizes, encouraging writers and artists to create and share new content. With an end of event masterpost being compiled onto this blog, it’s a time to show off your hidden favourite- And maybe drag somebody else into shipping it with you.

As with previous years, please use the tag #rvbrarepairweek and put @fanvsfic into your posts so we can find and reblog them.

What’s A Rare Pair?

Using the same guidelines as under the past moderator, use your best judgment as to whether something’s rare or not. However, if you’re unsure, under 100 tagged fics on Ao3 is a good place to start, as well as looking around at what ships have been the fandom focus recently.

Do We Have to Create Fic?

While this is primarily a fic blog, for this event only we are allowing ALL fan content (fanart, fanmixes, gifs, graphics, etc.) for this, though they will not be tagged as stringently as we usually tag fic content on this blog.

What If I Don’t Have a Tumblr?

No need to panic! You can submit it directly to this blog, as well as post it to the Ao3 collection. We’ll link to it on the masterpost of works at the end of the event! Posting on Dreamwidth or Pillowfort? Drop autisticblueteam (on both of these sites) a message and point them to the link so they can also be added to the masterpost.

What Are the Guidelines?

Check out /rarepairweek page on this very blog for them. We will also reblog this post with a link. General guidelines still apply though; tag with consideration!

Rare Pair Week is May 10-17, 2020

RvB Fools’ Zine

Hey, everyone, @bitsby​ here! I was planning to announce this on RT’s anniversary/April Fools’ day, but there’s no time like the present (especially since most of us are stuck at home)!

Dearest fellow RvB artists, comic-creators, authors, jokesters, poets, and the like: applications start today for the RvB Fools’ Zine, a Red vs Blue art and fanfiction zine dedicated to the foundation of RvB: comedy!

https://forms.gle/cDsBCnPQ9FMqpNBMA

The submission form linked above will remain open for two weeks until April 1st. Please check it out for more details!

(And a quick highlight about the fanfiction categories: would absolutely love to see some creative writing like poetry/limericks, things along the vein of the RvB fan guide’s Donut’s Super-Secret Diary or Blood Gulch Mission Book, etc.; it’s not just limited to standard fanfic! We might even see if artists wanna buddy up with writers to achieve some fun results…)

This’ll be my hub for planning, so follow this blog to stay in the loop!  I’ll be putting it on blast on my Twitter and Instagram, too. Stay safe and have fun out there, and thanks for being an awesome, skilled, and friendly community!

Really awesome submissions so far!! Thanks, guys! :^)

If you haven’t applied yet, entries close next week– plenty of time to send something in still!

Red vs. Blue Secret Santa Applications are open from now until November 24, 23:59 CET!

RvB Secret Santa 2019

The RvB Secret Santa 2019 is here!

Schedule: 

But what is a Secret Santa?!

A Secret Santa event is where you sign up to receive a present, simultaneously promising that you’ll give a present to someone else!

What kind of present can I get?

You can give and receive fanart, fanfiction, or a playlist! For fanfics, we request that you keep the length between 2k and 7k, just to keep things fair! In the same spirit, please make playlists somewhere between 10-15 songs.

As always, feel free to send an ask if you have any questions or concerns!

~ Santa’s Elves ~

2019 Update

At this time, there is no plan to run a Secret Santa through this blog by any of the mods. if you are interested in running one, please contact Mod Steph @secretlystephaniebrown! 

Thanks

-Santa’s Elves

RvB rec day (I won’t let it die. Don’t let it die)

Okay, so Imma just rec the amazing @agent-murica whumptober collection. I mean, they’ve written 60k words in one month, all glorious Grif whump, keeping the fandom alive with their daily updates. So good people, just check it all out. I salute them, I’m not sure how they survived being this good an entire month. They deserve to rest now, but I admit, Imma miss the daily Grif whump XD

It’s Rec day!

RvB Rec Day: August

Yooo, yooo, this is like the most I’ve done without forgetting to do them/giving up on them. A lot of art this go around, especially because I’m notorious for not reading fanfics anymore, ha. Well without further ado:

Fic Rec:

Quantity Over Quality by Prim_the_Amazing: Ok, so I’m absolutely aware that I’ve rec’ed this fic before, but I’m doing it again and none of you can stop me. Because holy shit, the most recent chapter is so good. This fic is very slow burn in terms of plot advancement, but every chapter is so good that it keeps your attention tightly, and brings you into a false sense of awareness because when the plot hits you, it hurts you like a freight train. So as to not spoil anything, that’s all I’ll say, so go read this fic now!

The Witch Who Came To Visit by @cinaed : You guys have probably figured by now that I’m in love with this series by now, considering I keep reccing every new update, but get used to it because this series hasn’t failed me yet in keeping me invested. I absolutely loved this installment, because of how it manages to get the Director into the plot (gotta love them loopholes am I right?). So definitely check this out!

Where He Dared Stand or Where He Dared Walk by @riathedreamer : I love Grif and Locus friendship. You all know this, my neighbors probably know this, and sure as hell I’m gonna make this known. I got so excited to see this that I dove straight in, and it did not disappoint. For the first segment with Locus, I was following along, nodding my head getting into it, but when he dropped the bombshell that it did at the end of the first segment I straight up gasped aloud. Read this, please read this, it’s so good with just one chapter out, that is the power of Ria’s writing my guys.

Art Rec:

@luvgalaxu : Ok, stop what you’re doing right now and look at these absolute beautifully rendered and painted pictures of Sharkface. Look at the details, look at them! Also like, y’all, it’s shark week, so it’s pretty much obligatory that you show these pics some love.

@ebbreon : I absolutely love their style of drawing! The colors are so nice to look at, the lines so smooth, and the characters and face are so dynamic! My favorite piece at the moment is this one of Sarge and Carolina, the colors are just so soft and pleasant to look at (also, Carolina for Red Team for the win)!

@squashfolded : I said it once before, I’ll say it again, their style of drawing lines is my absolute favorite. Sketchy but controlled in all of the best ways. I also happen to love their style of drawing people, and my favorite right now is this picture of Kimball who looks absolutely gorgeous.

@bloodypoptart : Let me start this off by saying that their style is the most delicious cartoon style I’ve seen in a while and just looking at their art gives me straight up dopamine because it’s so good. Ok, that being said, I absolutely love their facecanon’s for Grif and Simmons, in a way they feel fresh to me, especially their design for Grif. Plus the way they line is so crisp that I fall in love with every art piece, like in this one and this one. So yeah, go check out their art because it is deserving of so much love!

RvB Rec Day: June Art Recs!

There’s been a veritable flood of gorgeous Red vs. Blue fan art crossing my dash this month and I’m really excited to share some faves.

Where do I even begin reccing @edenxrose? So much good art posted lately it’s really hard to choose favorites, but here we go!

@vonlipvig​! Great unique style and such fun facecanons. I’m charmed.

@octopocalypse has these lovely Flowers for Freelancer portraits, as well as lots of other great art!

Happy Rec Day, pals. ♥️

Previous Rec Days

@rvbficwars​

RvB Rec Day

My first ever set of recs! There were so many great fics to choose from, but here are some of my favorites:

Pyrrhic in Nature by @agent-murica

A Grif-centric story with some really great Grif angst. There’s a thread of mystery regarding Temple’s plans for Grif and his AI that is really compelling and will definitely leave you hooked. The suspense is superbly done, and the characters are excellently written.

Speak No Evil by @riathedreamer

More Grimmons angst because there’s never enough of that. A what-if? story that has been loads of fun (despite the angst) to read so far. Seeing how both Grif and Simmons react to this life-changing injury is extremely interesting, and the continued threat of danger lingering over them just hurts so good. 

Cat’s Paw by @cinaed

The season three finale to what I think is the best-written AU I have ever read. Everything about this series is amazing – the characters are true to their personalities while adapted perfectly to their altered circumstances. Every time I see an update, I get ridiculously excited. The plot is gripping and incredibly written with spot-on pacing. This series never fails to make me smile, be that through Grimmons’ antics, Carolina’s (totally understandable) mischief, or Church’s attitude. This is something I seriously can’t recommend enough.

RvB Rec Day: July

I forgot that it was rec day until I saw a snapchat memory from a year ago of me saying, ‘oh snap it’s rec day!’ which made me go, ‘OH SHIT IT’S REC DAY’ so here we go onto the recs:

Fic Rec’s

The Unlucky Samaritan and Cat’s Paw by @cinaed : So I’ve been hooked on this series for a while, and have had an endless amount of questions on just how exactly Grif came to be a familiar and this supposed mistake of saving Locus’ life. And man have I never been happier to finally find out! The constant time switching in The Unlucky Samaritan filled in the blanks from Locus’ point of view which is so ingenious and absolutely amazing to read. Then in Cat’s Paw Grif and Locus finally meet again after the results of the trial, and holy shit is it so satisfying to read. Not going to get into a lot of details, because you guys should absolutely read it for yourselves!

Easier Said by @snowyfrostshadows : So, as some of you may know, I fucking love Gold Team dynamics, and I’m not gonna go ahead and be so bold as to claim that I’ve been starving for some Gold Team content, but! I’ve been starving for Gold Team- and especially Matthews- content. So imagine my surprise when I wandered across this story on ao3- it was like I found the holy grail and I swear I never opened and read a story so fast in my life. It’s hilarious, it’s well written and so deserving of a read, so you guys gotta check it out!

In Which Grif Has a Thing for Redheads by @riathedreamer : I love Grif rarepair stories, and I especially love the underrated yet so good pairing of Grif and Carolina. So thank the heavens that this absolutely wonderful fic exists because it’s keeping my poor rarepair shipper heart alive in all of the best ways. I’m so intrigued in the dynamics that Ria’s built between the two, and every chapter just leaves me with a nice warm feeling deep inside my heart. Can’t wait to see where else the fic goes because I’m going to avidly read the heck out of it. Definitely worth more than just one read!

Art Rec:

@edenxrose : I want to start this off by saying that I absolutely adore their art style! The way they draw armor is just so good, and I love their style of drawing faces especially so as well. One of my fav pieces that they’ve drawn is this pic of a Meta!Carolina AU. Like, not only is the idea absolutely bitching, but their art is absolutely superb and when I first saw the pic I couldn’t stop looking at all the details and effort put into it. You guys should definitely check out all their art!

@creatrixanimi : Do you know what’s hard to draw? Armor. Do you know who makes the most beautiful and breathtaking pictures with the most detailed armor I‘ve ever seen? Creatrixanimi. No seriously, the amount of details and eye-popping colors that go into their artwork is simply mind-blowing. Just take one look at this pic and tell me I’m wrong- you can’t do it. Honestly, if you haven’t checked out their artwork by now, then I don’t know what you’re doing with your life.

@luvgalaxu : Sara’s been doing a few facecanon trades lately, and I just love this one she did of Theta. The absolute texture of the picture is just so nice and soothing to look at, plus the way that she drew it is as amazing as ever. I could gush on and on about how much I love her art (there’s so much to talk about from the colors to the style of drawing, etc.) so there’s no way I couldn’t rec her again.

Eyyooo it’s rec day! Time flies fast, huh.