Intro Post

[Updated Jan 2 2024]

I'm Art! My pronouns are they/them or he/him.

This got long, haha

As well as being obstinatecondolement here, I am also obstinatecondolement on Tumblr, obstinatecondolement on vidders.net (which I really must post some of my vids to!), obstinatecondolement on Vimeo (most of my videos are password protected, but they are all posted with the passwords on AO3), and (you guessed it) obstinatecondolement on my much neglected Pillowfort.

In terms of my other fannish pseudonyms, I'm SweetPollyOliver on AO3; unmanlygrief on Twitter (Edit Jan 2023: but, uh, given current events, watch this space? Edit Jan 2024: Still there for now, but I probably would have deleted if I didn't want to do ITPE and since I do not think that will be on the-platform-formerly-known-as-Twitter in 2024, it's not unlikely that I won't be there much longer either, but I have made such threats before and not followed through on them), and I am also unmanlygrief on Discord.

Feel free to add me or PM/DM me on any of these platforms, or email me at obstinatecondolement@vidding.com if you'd like to get in touch that way.

Let's talk fandoms! I am an evergreen Star Trek fan, despite beyind disgracefully behind on most of the newer iterations of canon bar Lower Decks, and I was very monofannishly creating things for The Karate Kid and/or Cobra Kai for a good while, but I have started branching out again in the past few years. I am still a big TKK/CK fan (Cobra Kai never dies!) and mean to write some stuff on my to-do list, but I am not as intense with it as I was and other things have drifted in and out of my number one spot in the mean time.

Most recently, I've fallen very hard for the CBS Ghosts show, I had a very intense love affair with Succession that may be heating up again, I was massively invested in S1 of OFMD and slightly disappointed with S2 (although not as devastated as some were), I love Only Murders in the Building and am chipping away at some Mabel/Theo fic that has not yet seen the light of day, and I pretty recently reignited my younger self's love of the 1970s sitcom Porridge. I am a lifelong Discworld fan, but I only started writing fic in the fandom in 2023. As of now I have a handful of Discworld fics and podfics on my AO3 account that I hope to keeping adding to on and off.

Other things that are less to the forefront, but are still very much bubblings away in the background: I love Quantum Leap, both old and new, and am even now still rending my garments in lamentation over the Willow tv show and A League of Their Own (2022) being cancelled. And, honestly, I have lots of other fandoms, past and present, and there are a few that I often request for exchanges and am not usually "active" in otherwise.

The ways I participate in fandom are larely writing fic, but I am a bit of a fanwork dilettante and have also dipped my toes into vidding, podfic, fanbinding, writing meta (or jokey-joke posts, depending on how serious I am being at the time), making character/ship fanmixes, and putting together the occasional graphic (mostly podfic covers at the moment). I also have made a few fancrafts over the years! Mostly crochet dolls of Star Trek characters, like these ones. I have also betaed fic for other people and I would like to do that more often.

My transformative works policy can be found on my AO3 profile, but TL;DR, I give blanket permission for non-commercial transformative works of my fanworks.

Other things I do/have done in fandom are volunteering with the OTW as a tag wrangler and modding a few fandom events. I modded allvalley100, a weekly Cobra Kai/Karate Kid drabble challenge, with trinityofone from 2021–2023, I previously modded trek-rarepair-swap, a (first monthly, then quarterly) exchange where people created fanworks for each other's rare (which we defined as <50 works on AO3) Star Trek ships, with cosmic-llin between 2016 and 2020 and we have plans to revive it at some point when we have the time, and I will be starting a new podfic challenge called tidepodchallenge in January 2024 where participants receive bingo cards with prompts and then fill them by making podfics of Yuletide works written by authors who give permission for podfics of their work. If you are a fan of podic, please follow the comm and, if you are a podficcer youself, consider signing up once I get the ball rolling on that in the next few weeks!

Non-fandom things to know about me are that I am bisexual, disabled, transmasc, a leftist, I love fibre arts and textiles (crochet, knitting, weaving, spinning, dyeing, sewing), I sing, I am (slowly) learning the cello, I love spreadsheets and planners (I am the most disorganised orderly person you will ever meet), I live with (most of) my siblings and parents, and, as well partial custody of the family pets (dogs, chickens, another cat), I have two very spoiled cats of my own.

I tend to go through phrases of being more and less active on Dreamwidth, but what I mostly post about here is just various things that are going on with me in real life, stuff about my hobbies, goals that I'm working on or thinking about setting, etc. I very occasionally post links to fanworks, but I will try to keep more up to date with that going forward, as I have found DW fandom to be very rewarding when I do go to the effort of being more active in it. This is also where I tend to post my exchange letters, so you will probably at least hear from me once a year when I sign up to Yuletide. Most of my more personal, non-fandom entries are access-only, but I'm very liberal about granting access, so don't feel shy about asking!

Snowflake Challenge #3

So I'm starting super late with the snowflake_challenge, but I have noticed people doing it and thought I'd get in on the fun.

In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.



A fusion I have long dreamed about with trinityofone is a Karate Kid/Howl's Moving Castle fusion where (and stay with me) Kreese is Sophie and Terry Silver is Howl. I ship these evil old bastards so hard (to the point of writing 24 fics and editing one vid for them) and all I want in this world is crotchety old man John Kreese begrudgingly falling in love with rakish fop Terry Silver who sees no point in living if he can't be beautiful.