#venji fic fests

[onlyherefortheshowmances]

My Valentine’s Day fic for the @venjificfests collection is complete and posted!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29364474

Title: A Surprise for Benji

Rating: T

Word Count: 10,498

Summary:  Victor is struggling to figure out a Valentine's Day date for Benji. It's their first Valentine's together (nearly a year after the events of Love, Victor Season 1). Benji has surprised Victor over and over again throughout the first year of their relationship including the previous weekend for his 17th birthday, but Victor is determined to do the surprising for once.

#love victor #love victor fanfic #Love Victor fanfiction #venji fanfic #venji #venji fanfiction #venji fic fests #valentine's fic fest #valentine's day

[benjislatteart]

for all you give

Author: callmevenji

Victor/Benji | 4.2K | General | Holiday: Valentine’s day

SUMMARY:

Victor and Benji's Valentine's Day tradition involves trying to out-romance the other and coming up with the grandest gestures for each other.

COMMENT:

Happy Valentine’s Day!! It’s been a while since I read fic but I read this one written for Venji Fic Fest: Valentine’s Day and it was so cute everyone. It was full of just cheesy romance that makes your heart warm. It goes through Victor and Benji’s Valentine’s Days over the years and I loved how they sprinkled in details about their relationship outside of their dates as well. Really lovely!

[ for all you give ]

#love victor #venji #love victor fanfic #love victor fic rec #pairing: Victor/Benji #general #lessthan10K #author: callmevenji #prev: temporarylove #i'll need to fix that at some point oops #relationship: established #vibe: fluff #venji fic fests #venji valentine fic fest #theme: holidays

[callmevenji]

for all you give (AO3) Venji | 4.2k | General Summary: Victor and Benji's Valentine's Day tradition involves trying to out-romance the other and coming up with the grandest gestures for each other. Written for the V-Day Venji Fic Fest 2021

#venji #benji x victor #love victor fanfic #love victor #venji fic fests #venji fanfic #simonverse #simonverse fanfic #my writing

[that0negayslytherin]

Three words: Venji Vampire AU. I wrote this as one of my additions to the Venji Fic Fests Halloween 2020 event, and I’m very excited to be sharing it!!!

excerpt;

Victor’s starting to catch on.

He doesn’t know what he’s catching onto, but Benji can tell that he’s starting to question things. In the beginning, they hadn’t been quite close enough for Victor to realize when things were starting to deteriorate again. Back when they weren’t spending so much time together, when things were fresh and exciting and the butterflies hadn’t been shot down by the crimson archer, the unwelcome squatter in Benji’s veins.

But now that they’re practically inseparable, it’s become much more difficult to hide when feeding time rolls around.

And this October is even worse, because there are two full moons. Two. Even though Benji knows in the rational part of his mind that the distance between them isn’t anything special, that the phases of the moon will still come and go as they always have, there’s something deeply unsettling about seeing two full moons in the same calendar month.

#venji #love victor #venji fic fests #vampire!au #love victor fanfiction #venji fanfiction #my wriitng #how do i even tag anymore idk idc

[lovevictorficfests]

Venji Fic Fests: Winter Holidays 2020

For our second event, we’re celebrating everything festive for the winter!! Snowball fights, sledding, curling up by a fire, exchanging gifts, whatever your heart desires!!

Guidelines

Length: We suggest around a 1k words minimum, but it’s okay if your word count is lower.

Theme: While this is an open-ended event and anything holiday-related or winter themed will do, here’s also a list of prompts and ideas in case you want some inspiration or a starting point!

Ship: Though we’re called Venji Fic Fests, it’s allowed and encouraged to focus on other ships within the fandom as well. If you’d like, your fic need not include any Venji (or any ship) at all!

Submissions: In order to submit, first and foremost, post a fic and make sure you add it to this collection. Once your fic is posted, create a Tumblr post linking to it, and then share the link to that post in this Google form. That way, we can reblog your fic to this blog and keep everything in one place!

Deadline: The collection will close on Friday, January 1st.

(If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask!)

{If you’re looking for some fellow writers to ask questions and bounce ideas off, come join our Discord!}

#love victor #venji #venji fanfiction #love victor fanfiction #venji fanfic #love victor fanfic #holiday fic fest #fic fest

[comradesalazar]

2020 Creator Wrap: Favorite Works

I will admit I got a lil Emotional that I got tagged in this but I’m so excited to go through it because this year has been SO PRODUCTIVE for me when it comes to writing. Thank you to the legend @that0negayslytherin​ for tagging me and the other legends, you the real MVP (and also thanks again for setting up the LV fic discord bc that place... really b Wild and really b a wonderful place to motivate each other to be our best.) Legends only!!

Anyhway! Onto this thing... I’m excited.

[rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (or so) favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought to the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!]

So. Most of my works from this year have been Venji related because I’m still in the deep pit of Love, Victor obsession and idk when that’ll go away. Hopefully not anytime soon because I’m having a great time and fic was an amazing way for me to improve my craft. I do have one piece of original work on this list, but the rest is fic. It’s difficult to choose favorites so I think I’ll go chronologically. A couple of these have graphics but not all of them. Anyway... let’s get into this, shall we.

Arakhne of the Floating Mountain

So this the first work I completed this year. It’s an original novella I wrote for Wattpad’s Open Novella Contest and it’s a very fun, character-centric story that reimagines Arakhne/Arachne (the one from the legend who gets turned into a spider after challenging Athena) as a lonely lesbian who lives alone on, you guessed it, a palace on a mountain in the sky, until three sisters drop by asking for her to create their coronation dresses for when they become the queens of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The sisters (Soledad, Luna and Estelle) basically try to court her and it’s a good time. Obviously, I didn’t win the competition but it was still a really fun story for me to write and part of my journey of realizing I can create a writing habit and work on something over the course of a long time, since the only other completed long work I had was for NaNo, which was just binge-writing over 30 days before I had the chance to get bored. If you’re into magical lesbians, check it out!

The stars will love me even if you don’t

I have so much to say about this work. I started it just on a whim in August after I watched Love, Victor in July and began wanting to actually contribute to the works of fandom. Little did I know that I would be embarking on a journey of 120k words and counting, with 33 chapters. This story deals with a whole random of issues -- from long-distance relationships, substance abuse, mental health problems especially around anxiety and depression/suicidality, toxic relationships, codependency, self-harm, the project of becoming oneself and being able to manage life and navigate the world in a healthy way, all the things. In a lot of ways, it is a personal project. But also in a lot of ways I wanted to correct a lot of ideas we have about what constitutes a healthy relationship and what love should look like. There were many times when I wanted to give up on this project due to frustration and exhaustion, but I continued to work at it. I learned so much about my own capabilities, about developing a writing habit, and about what it’s like to write a behemoth of a story. It isn’t perfect by any means but I appreciate the people who have reached out to me and told me that they learned some things about themselves from reading. This is truly a labor of love and I can see that it already accomplished the goal I set for myself which was to help people. It’s lit. And thank you so much to @callmevenji​ for the lovely cover!! She’s a legend!! 

The Thousand-Eyed Wraith (TTEW)

This was a little one-shot I wrote for the Halloween Venji Fic Fest and it takes place in the world of my original work, The Thousand-Eyed Crow. Basically, it’s about what would happen if Venji ended up in that world and had to deal with some spooky nonsense and eventually ended up joining a cult. It was fun for me because it was more stream of consciousness and post-modernist, which is very different to how I normally write but it was a really fun experiment tbh. 

You Only Live Forever (YOLF)

This was another one-shot I wrote for the Fic Fest, but this one was much smuttier and mature than TTEW. I was really inspired by Beyonce’s “Partition” (the song and the video lmao) and thought it would be interesting to put Venji in a world similar to Greendale in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina but with s*x magic, so it was essentially a Love, Victor and CAOS cross-over for grownups lol. Apparently it worked out well, though, and they ended up trying to summon Satan which went... questionably. But I had a lot of fun writing this, as well, especially when it came to sorta balancing the old-timey setting with the modern day and the smutty scenes with the softer, fluffier ones. 

Part of Your World

So one day I had an idea to write a Little Mermaid-inspired Venji story that would be so sweet and romantic... And so I did. I took a lot of inspiration from several sources -- one, of course, was the Disney version of the Little Mermaid, as well as the original version which is a lot darker and more sinister, as well as mythology around sirens and selkies and just, I guess like, class warfare. So I ended up with a sorta more adult-version of the Little Mermaid where Benji gets attacked by humans and is distrustful of them until he meets Victor who is “not like other humans” and helps patch him up, and they embark on a bit of a whirlwind romance. This has been a treat to work on even though it’s probably one of my least popular fics because I imagine people are coming for something a bit more light-hearted but I’m incapable of writing something that is 100% fun and not chock full of imagery and meaning. I think this has also been the work that showcased and tested my imagery-writing and dialogue-writing abilities the most and brought out my inner poet. And once again a huge thank you to @callmevenji​ for the fanart, if you haven’t already followed her you should bc she’s a legend.

Dead Men Feed the Fish

Finally, my last and most recent work is also the story I worked on for NaNoWriMo this year. 63,000 words completed in less than a month, depicting the initial meeting of Venji and the way their romance develops and deepens over time. It’s just (chef’s kiss). I had originally had the idea for pirate!Venji and really wanted to write it because I was inspired by That One Scene in Pirates of the Caribbean, which is probably one of the most romantic scenes I’ve ever seen and between the only het pairing I stan. So I just had to write a story that included this scene and that allowed me to write my dream scenario of Venji out on the open seas being gay and having a good time and going on adventures and having homoerotic sword fights. This story has basically everything -- romance, action, adventure, magic/fantasy, a lil bit of spice/kink, good communication, tension, cute animals, everyone is gay, what’s not to love. I’m also looking to edit and publish traditionally so I’m in the process of fixing all that up now. And once again, thank you to @callmevenji​ for the brilliant fanart!

Anyway, that was that, and I hope that if you have the time and you get the chance, that you give some of my works a shot because I would be very grateful and I think you will have fun. 

I’ll tag @kateis-cakeis​, @g531​, and I guess anyone else who wants to do this! 

#long post #writing #fanfiction #love victor #venji #author #my writing #gay literature

[classicalclarinetist]

2020 Creator Wrap: Favorite Works

I was tagged by @callmevenji, whose writing is amazing btw! 

[rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (or so) favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought to the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!]

Hi! I exist! LMAO. Anyway, this year has been weird, but I have gotten a lot out of it. I started writing fic a little over a year ago, and I didn’t think I would end up here, but I’m kind of glad I did! I was inspired to write more by a lovely supportive group of people on the Love, Victor fic lovers discord server! And now, I actually have five things (not all fic and not all lv) to share which I wrote this year, and that is pretty epic. So here they are!

Hurricane - A Love, Victor Story

This is the first fic I wrote for Love, Victor. It goes through each of the other major characters’ perspectives throughout season 1 as well as going into the aftermath at the end. It is a long WIP that I have already finished writing but plan to update twice weekly! It was super fun to write, and I’m really proud of the end result. It will be 72 chapters in total and I have released 11, so there is much more to come!

November

Ok so this one. I love this one. It is the first thing I wrote after joining the lv fic lovers server, and I think it might some of my very best writing ever. I wrote it for Benji’s birthday because they seemed to like writing fics for special occasions, and it turned out so freaking well. I’m just incredibly happy that the people in the server encouraged me to write more because if they didn’t, this one shot would not exist, and that would be sad.

Stolen Hearts and Holiday Seasons

This is my fic for the Venji fic fest: Holidays 2020. It is four chapters, and each is based off of a Taylor Swift song that has something to do with Christmas or New Year’s. It is my most recent fic, and I am so glad that I wrote it because it was super fun and extremely fluffy. But it was really fun to write and I finished it recently.

The Story of TJ and Cyrus

So I started writing this one in June/July last year and didn’t finish it until February this year oops haha. But it still counts as this year. This is my Andi Mack fic (on ff.net because I didn’t have an ao3 account yet), and it is my only complete long multi-chapter work. It is 20 chapters of approximately 3000 words each. This was a lot of fun to write, and it’s actually a pretty cute story. It was the first fanfiction I have ever seen through to the end, and I am really proud of how it turned out.

“Are You Gay?”

This one is not a fic. This is literally my life story condensed into 1500 words and 9 pages in a book by Steven Skelley called Gay Heartbreak and Triumph. It is a collection of life stories of gay men, by gay men. I was extremely happy to have had the opportunity to write this and submit it for publication in the book. Sharing one’s personal story can be a really difficult thing to do, and I found the courage to share mine with the world. The book was released a couple of weeks ago, and I bought I copy immediately. I haven’t even read it yet; that’s how new it is. But I can’t wait to do so, and I hope that this book can help some people feel valid and accept themselves. You will have to buy the book to read this one (it is available online and paperback).

So that’s my list! The lv fics can be found on ao3 with my username lgbtfiction_writer and the Andi Mack fic can be found on ff.net with my username lgbtfiction-writer. I have more ideas for writing fic and music (bc I am also a composer), so I can’t wait to create!

I rarely use tumblr so I think my friends on here have all already been tagged, so instead, I will tag the people who have discovered me and inspired me to create! Thank you so much!!!

@that0negayslytherin @callmevenji @comradesalazar @benjislatteart @g531 @ducklingcabal

#my writing #love victor #andi mack #gay literature

[benjislatteart]

Uncharted Waters

Author: temporarylove

Victor/Benji | 12.7K | Teen | AU: Christmas, Cruise 

SUMMARY:

Benji has bought a holiday cruise for his ex-boyfriend Derek, but now that they've broken up he needs someone else to go with him, and who better than his best friend Victor?

Benji tenía boletos para ir a un crucero navideño con su ex-novio Derek, pero ahora que terminaron necesita a un nuevo acompañante, ¿y quién mejor que su mejor amigo Victor?

COMMENT: Another one written for Venji Fic Fest: Winter Holiday 2020! Y’all, I can’t put into words how much I adored this fic. The author wrote this in Spanish first, and then took the time to translate it to English as well!! This was so well done, the setup and plot and miscommunications all felt so much like a Christmas movie to me. I didn’t think I loved the friends-to-lovers trope but it’s done so well here that I might be a convert. The premise is Benji and Derek break up, but Benji already bought a romantic couple’s package on a cruise so he invites Victor along instead - what could go wrong. There is absolutely amazing banter and so so much pining. I wasn’t expecting to absolutely fall in love with this fic but here we are! Highly recommend <3

[ Uncharted Waters ] - Spanish

[ Uncharted Waters ] - English Translation

#love victor #venji #love victor fanfiction #love victor fic rec #pairing: Victor/Benji #teen #10kto30k #author: temporarylove #universe: AU #theme: holidays #relationship: get together #vibe: fluff #venji winter holiday fic fest #theme: favorites #YEAH THATS RIGHT ITS GOING IN THE FAVORITES TAG #also another one i suggested the name for hell yeah #this will be reposted if it doent make it into the tags bc it needs to be read #venji fic fests

[benjislatteart]

Fresh Hell

Author:  ThatOneGaySlytherin

Victor/Benji | 28.7k | Mature | AU

SUMMARY:

Two other bodies have been discovered, both in different areas of campus altogether.

“Someone’s been busy,” Lake jokes.

“Lake,” Victor and Mia both say.

“Well? Three murders in one day is impressive, let’s just admit it.”

~*~*~

Venji college AU: Is Halloween more or less fun when you add real murder?

COMMENT: 

GUYS THIS IS SO GOOD. I’m a little late recing it since it’s also part of the Venji Fic Fest: Halloween 2020 collection but Halloween is the best holiday and is eternal so it’s fine. This is a slasher fic that made me legit scared at times!! It’s written with a similar comedic style to Scream Queens so it is also extremely funny and there are so many great venji moments. Great story arc with a satisfying ending! Highly recommend this one (:

[ Fresh Hell ]

#love victor #love victor fanfiction #venji #love victor fic rec #venji fic fests #venji halloween fic fest #relationship: established #pairing: Victor/Benji #mature #universe: AU #author: ThatOneGaySlytherin #theme: holidays #vibe: angst #10kto30k #benji's ass should be another character with how much it's talked about #theme: college #anyways it's been a while hi this is probably not gonna make it into the tags again

[benjislatteart]

Right Side Of Living

Author: temporarylove

Victor/Benji | 6.5K | General | AU: Ghosts, Halloween

SUMMARY:

Victor and his family move to Shady Creek when they start experiencing paranormal stuff at their house, until finally Victor and his friends decide to contact whoever is haunting their apartment.

COMMENT: Venji Fic Fest: Halloween 2020 entry again! We love Halloween on this blog! This was so much fun. Victor has such a humorous attitude towards [redacted] the ghost, who is slightly creepy before just being a delight. I think everyone should have a meddling ghost that really just wants you to be your true self. Victor and Benji are so adorable in this and I had a great time reading it. 

[ Right Side Of Living ]

#love victor #venji #love victor fanfiction #love victor fic rec #venji fic fests #venji halloween fic fest #relationship: get together #pairing: Victor/Benji #general #universe: AU #author: temporarylove #theme: holidays #lessthan10k #theme: supernatural #theme: ghosts #vibe: fluff

[benjislatteart]

Benji the Sexy Cowboy

Author: fairyy 

Victor/Benji | 1.9K | Teen | AU, Halloween

SUMMARY: Victor takes Adrian trick or treating. Benji is a sexy cowboy.

COMMENT: What more do you need than the summary? This fic is short, sweet, and makes my cheeks hurt with how much I smiled. This was written for Venji Fic Fest: Halloween 2020!! 

[ Benji the Sexy Cowboy ]

#love victor #venji #love victor fic rec #love victor fanfiction #venji fic fests #venji halloween fic fest #pairing: Victor/Benji #teen #lessthan10k #relationship: get together #universe: AU #author: fairyy #vibe: fluff #theme: holidays #this is the first post as i test how tumblr works a;lsdjf #theme: favorites

[benjislatteart]

Don’t Think Twice

Author: BenjisLatteArt (me!)

Victor/Benji | 1.8k | Teen | AU: Canon Divergence

SUMMARY:

Benji followed Victor to the hallway in Willacoochee and they talked all night long. But now it’s New Year’s Eve and Victor can’t stop thinking about him. Maybe it’s time for bold strokes.

COMMENT:

Written for Venji Fic Fest: Winter Holiday 2020! I accidentally did not finish my christmas fic on time hehe so I wrote this instead. Just about the friend group having fun on NYE!! Canon divergence from Willacoochee where Victor and Benji become friends. 

[ Don’t Think Twice ]

#love victor #love victor fanfiction #love victor fic rec #pairing: Victor/Benji #teen #lessthan10K #author: BenjisLatteArt #universe: canon divergence #theme: holidays #relationship: get together #vibe: fluff #venji winter holiday fic fest #say that five times fast #venji fic fests

[benjislatteart]

Starved, Sanguine, Smitten

Author: ThatOneGaySlytherin

Victor/Benji | 7.6K | Mature| AU: Vampires, Halloween

SUMMARY: Benji has a particularly violent secret he's been keeping from Victor. As feeding time approaches, Benji prepares to try to both celebrate Halloween like a normal teenager and ensure he doesn't wither.

Meanwhile, Victor wonders if Benji's cheating on him. If only the reality were that simple.

COMMENT: Another one written for Venji Fic Fest: Halloween 2020!! I am obsessed (understatement) with vampires, and y’all when I say this hit me. Benji as a vampire? All I could ever ask for. It was funny, dark, and a little s*xy. The dialogue was hilarious, had a bit of hidden unexpected depth, and the author twisted the lore behind vampires in such a delectable and creative way that my vampire obsessed brain short wired. 

[ Starved, Sanguine, Smitten ]

#love victor #venji #love victor fanfiction #love victor fic rec #venji fic fests #venji halloween fic fest #relationship: established #pairing: Victor/Benji #mature #universe: AU #author: ThatOneGaySlytherin #theme: holidays #lessthan10k #vampire!benji #theme: supernatural #theme: vampires #vampire benji vampire benji vampire benji vampire benji vampire benji #theme: favorites

[benjislatteart]

if we make it through december

Author:  ThatOneGaySlytherin

Victor/Benji | 16.3k | Mature | AU, Christmas

SUMMARY:

Benji's heart is still broken, and his bakery is limping through the holiday season, not certain to see the new year. Victor's got his sights set on a promotion at work until Benji catches his eye and makes him consider loosening up, just a little. Just enough.

Awkward flirting, pining, and baking ensue.

COMMENT:

Yay for the start of winter holiday fic fest submissions!!!! This is a bakery AU because I think we all need the mental picture of Benji baking cookies this season. It’s got a bit of a workaholic!Victor (is that a thing) who is so awkward it’s endearing. A great dynamic of Benji and Mia being friends, and a lovely OC. The dialogue is funny and lovely. There’s a lot going on in this little fic but it’s all so worth it and is such a good mood for this holiday season!! 

[ if we make it through december ]

#love victor #venji #love victor fanfiction #love victor fic rec #pairing: Victor/Benji #mature #10kto30k #author: ThatOneGaySlytherin #universe: AU #theme: ho #relationship: get together #vibe: fluff #but w/ depth bc idk if nathan is capable of writing pure fluff #venji winter holiday fic fest #what a mouth full lmao #also i suggested the title hehe #I CANT BELIEVE I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE THEME: HO #IM KEEPING IT BC THATS SO FUNNY #theme: holidays #venji fic fests

[lovevictorficfests]

Venji Fic Fests: Halloween 2020

Join us for our first event, our Halloween fic fest!! For this event, we’ll be writing spooky Venji oneshots (or multi-chapter works, if that’s more your jam).

Guidelines

Length: We’re suggesting around a 1k words minimum, but it’s okay if your word count is lower.

Theme: While this is an open-ended event and anything fall-related or spooky will do, here’s also a list of prompts and ideas in case you want some inspiration or a starting point!

Submissions: In order to submit, first and foremost, post a fic and make sure you add it to this collection. Once your fic is posted, create a Tumblr post linking to it, and then share the link to that post in this Google form. That way, we can reblog your fic to this blog and keep everything in one place!

Deadline: The collection will close at midnight EST on Sunday, October 25th. This way we can all spend the week leading up to Halloween reading each other’s work and getting in the spirit!

(If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask!)

{If you’re looking for some fellow writers to ask questions and bounce ideas off, come join our Discord!}

#love victor #venji #venji fanfiction #love victor fanfiction #halloween fic fest

[callmevenji]

Uncharted Waters

Summary: Benji has bought a holiday cruise for his ex-boyfriend Derek, but now that they've broken up he needs someone else to go with him, and who better than his best friend Victor? Cue to a tropical Santa Claus, an awkward couples massage, salsa dancing and a whole lot of pining...

Resumen: Benji tenía boletos para ir a un crucero navideño con su ex-novio Derek, pero ahora que terminaron necesita a un nuevo acompañante, ¿y quién mejor que su mejor amigo Victor?   

Word Count: 12.7k

This is my first contribution to the “VENJI FIC FESTS: WINTER HOLIDAYS 2020″

Spanish version

English version

#fanart #Love Victor fanart #love victor #love victor fanfic #fic #my writing #my drawings #lv fics #lv fanart #venji holiday fic fest #cruise au #venji cruise au #my art