#riveyoncecuoknowles

[ambientwitch]

The craziest thing about this girl is she has riveyoncecuoknowles in her laptop bookmark bar. I haven’t asked her about it

[sophia-helix]

Yuletide 2016

My WONDERFUL gift:

A Change of Season (3456 words) by lnhammer Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Táng Cháo | Tang Dynasty RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shàngguān Wǎnér & Wǔ Zétiān Characters: Shàngguān Wǎnér, Wǔ Zétiān Additional Tags: Misses Clause Challenge, Chromatic Source, Chromatic Yuletide, Palace Intrigue, strong women of history, corridors of power, Poetry, Love Poems, Mentor/Protégé Summary:

Shangguan Wan-er could think of no reason for the Empress to summon a palace slave to her presence. No good reason. It would be the first meeting of two of the most powerful women of Chinese history.

I swear I asked for this just because I ran across Shàngguān Wanér's name in an article and the wiki article was so fascinating. I desperately wanted women-focused historical fiction about her and this story more than delivered. It's about poetry and maturity and change and I just adored it.

My assignment:

Begin With Love (4123 words) by sophiahelix Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yentl (1983) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Yentl Mendel | Anshel Mendel/Hadass Vishkower Characters: Hadass Vishkower, Yentl Mendel | Anshel Mendel Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Misses Clause Challenge, Menstruation, Judaism Summary:

Her husband had his monthly courses today.

I've been wanting to write Yentl fic the last few years, and I was going to treat this letter if I didn't get assigned it, heh.

If you're not familiar with the movie, it's about a young Jewish woman in turn of the century Eastern Europe who's been secretly studying Talmud with her father. After he dies, she cuts off her hair and goes to the big city to join a yeshiva, where she meets and becomes study partners with a man named Avigdor whom she quickly falls for. Avigdor is engaged to the beautiful, extremely feminine Hadass, but it gets called off for Reasons, and also for Reasons he convinces "Anschel" to marry her instead, so he can still see her.

Rewatching the movie was an experience; I recall being very into Yentl/Avigdor as a teenager, because I had/have a big thing for Mandy Patinkin, but now I found myself caring about Anschel/Hadass far more, because it turns out I had/have a big thing for Amy Irving I didn't realize at the time. Hadass loves Anschel for himself, as her husband, and the chemistry between them is strong.

Of course, in the movie Yentl isn't in love with Hadass, though she cares for her, and she reveals herself to Avigdor and goes off to America to be "free" (this is a departure from the original short story and the tone of the movie is much more superficially Feminist without much deeper examination). Luckily my recipient wanted a different ending and I was happy to write it.

And oh, the research on this! My first thought was, "How on earth does Yentl manage menstruation?" It's explicitly stated that Hadass is kept very innocent by her parents, so I thought Yentl might be able to talk her way through it like she does other things, but I also knew there was Jewish law on the subject. Cue days of research during which I had tabs on Talmudic law and Google books and the short story open; I had a feeling I was missing something big about actual normative cultural practices, and finally managed to run down references to a medieval commentary tract with much stricter rules than the Talmudic period of 12 days of no contact.

Anyway once I had the ground rules down the story came through on its own and I really loved writing it. I was in a very femslash mood this Yuletide and this was exactly the kind of thing I wanted to write.

I also wrote a Treat:

Get Real Get Right (Fuckin Right) (1040 words) by sophiahelix Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Riveyonce Cuoknowles Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Sufjan Stevens - Character, Aubrey Drake Graham, St. Vincent | Annie Clark Summary:

Sufjan Stevens: how much do you know about the rapper drake

Annie Clark: He seems nice

Sufjan Stevens: ok

Annie Clark: Why?

Sufjan Stevens: no reason

Sufjan Stevens: I just found this weird blog

Annie Clark: About Drake?

Sufjan Stevens: kind of

If you haven't seen Riveyonce Cuoknowles before, it's a Tumblr blog, semi-satirical, about the adventures of Sufjan Stevens and Drake in love, among other things. It's very funny and often sweet, and they came out with a fantastic crowd-sourced mashup mixtape a while back, which hilariously got a lot of attention in indie music blog circles (with a lot of confused commentary on the blog itself).

I had the sudden idea of playing around with the trope What If They Found The Fanfiction About Them, and this fic occupies a space somewhere between RYCK's satirical one and more straightforward RPF. I wrote it under extreme time pressure, after thinking about it for weeks but not having spare time to write it, and I was pretty happy with it (though I might write a sequel).

#my fic #yuletide #yuletide 2016 #yentl #riveyoncecuoknowles

[mouthmoodz]

am i the only one who remembers riveyoncecuoknowles and their drake/sufjan posting

#missingno.exe

[alienjock]

try all you want joke about tenderness and being feral and hozier and the woods all you want none of you will ever be as funny as riveyoncecuoknowles

[inayatheitabby]

Happy birthday six swans

#riveyoncecuoknowles #music #i has something to say

[tremendousdetectivetheorist]

Tag Game: Shipping Edition

Catching up on stuff I was tagged in awhile back. Thanks for tagging me @jeremyholmes and @astronbookfilms! First ship you ever read fic for: Heero Yuy x Duo Maxwell (from my high school Gundam Wing days lmao)

First ship you ever wrote fic for: same as above XD Ship you write the most now: Oh, dear. Does The Babbitt and the Bromide (Brobit) count? I haven’t been writing much but I’ve made some gifs and a few drawings :) Ship you read the most now: it’s prob a tie between Jeeves/Bertie Wooster and Raffles/Bunny, And by “now” I mean within the last 6 months Newest ship: Penguin and Polar Bear in Polar Bear Cafe. And Penguin with Grizzly Bear.. Rare ship you wanna read more of: Sufjan Stevens/Aubrey Graham (Drake) from @riveyoncecuoknowles​ cos it’s so cute and I love all the characters in that verse, esp. the Great Blue Heron Your taboo ship: Definitely Major Mohn and Simon Carter from Colditz. Taboo because it’s not a healthy ship and I can’t see it ending well lol They never met in canon ship: Mary Morstan and Agatha (Milverton’s house maid). I think it would be sweet if they did a “marriage of convenience” to Watson and Holmes and all lived together Your unexpected ship: the cowboy and the Centurion from the Night at the Museum movies? They showed up on my dash during Pride Month The ship you always forget to give love to: Anne Shirley/Diana Barry...prob cos I didn’t realize they were a “ship” ship until I was more grown-up so I take them for granted a bit. And lately Holmes/Watson, though they’re ever-present in my mind as The Dynamic Ship your OC with a canon character: I don’t have one. Um, Jeremy’s face with pancakes A ship you’re embarrassed to ship: Dick Player with anyone because of his name XD but not really though, he’s pretty shippable

Your most romantic ship: Anne and Diana! Your most tragic ship: George and Harry from Colditz. Tragic because Harry is only in one ep in which they are soooo smitten, and then he escapes right away, without George! They deserved to be happy T-T (and there is a lovely fic of them roleplaying as Jane Eyre and Rochester, if you can believe it adlfkj) A ship you want more content for: def Brobit. For that lookalike couple dynamic Tagging: I don’t know who’s done this or not but if you’re reading this and wanna do it, please tag me :) @the-prince-of-professors @brilliantorinsane @bakerstreetcrow @holmesoverture

#tag game #shipping

[hangingfromchandeliers]

who can i commission to make a taemin/sufjan kinda blog a la riveyoncecuoknowles

#sufjan: my dearest companion.. i must retreat to my nest but i strongly advice you not to eat crayons for breakfast #taemin: sufjan hyung 6v6 im not sure what else to eat since you told me not to eat ants either

[zimmermanns]

@riveyoncecuoknowles is the best blog on this entire website and i think about it every time i listen to weezer

#* #today on the radio i heard ''hi im rivers cuomo from weezer and you're listening to wkqx'' #and then they played uhm africa by toto........the song before was not weezer either #????????? thanks rivers cuomo!

[samwiselastname]

riveyoncecuoknowles > keshastuck

[eveningclouds]

the dog memes in the drake/sufjan story are killing me

PLEASE SKSJSKSJDJD like humor 100% peaked with whatever riveyoncecuoknowles was doing 

#i need both sufjan stevens and drake to actually read n acknowlege this maybe #mail

[wildersage]

riveyoncecuoknowles introduce will toledo into the ryck universe challenge

#a post for 1 person and that is me #p

[riveyoncecuoknowles]

Hi, do you mind if I tattoo one sentence from your stories onto my body? There's nothing that I cluld think of that would made me happier (it will take a while but i really plan to do it in a near future where I'm not crippling poor anymore).. thank you my dearest, and my tatto might have the word Wurlitzer among other instruments played together only once

like by all means go right ahead but let me be the first to ask you if you’re absolutely sure you want a riveyoncecuoknowles post permanently tattooed on your body for all eternity

#yourfavoritebastard

[zombiemaids]

12, 22, 55

buffy ily!

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?

beastie boys - shake your rump, bts - war of hormone, owl city - suburn, sufjan stevens - tonya harding, simple plan - summer paradise


22. Where would you like to travel?

california, iceland, scotland (♥️), canada


55. Favourite blog?

@mulletbowers, @riveyoncecuoknowles, @summerhigh, and all of my friends! 💖

#vampireslayr #answered

[ambientwitch]

I started to make a riveyoncecuoknowles-esque post using these images but I'm too horrified just looking at them right now to actually write anything. So here you go

#this is the reality of old house

[lilnasxvevo]

anyone ever think about how riveyoncecuoknowles’ sufjan stevens/drake series is the most brilliant thing on tumblr? just saying

[exai]

riveyoncecuoknowles is basically like old school homestuck in the general feeling of the posts which i kinda really love