#[[Fading Lights]]

[piersthesniper]

I’m a bad bitch, you can’t kill me!!!

Art dump woahhhh

Y’all do NOT associate me with dteam. Thank you <33 Just a quiet Tubbo fan here

[totallynotagremlin]

Everyone who exists on this human plane go forth and be sad by reading fading lights

Its a masterpeice and is sad as fuck butnits fucjing worth it

Even if you dont like beeduo or the dsmp THIS IS ABOUT JUST THEM AND IS LITERALLY GORGEOUS WORK OF ART

[dreamcatcherwriting]

Not the real you.

Yeah haha I had a lot of fun with this one! It's based off the document @hellenite put out with their ideas for the Fading Lights continuation that will never happen.

Spoilers for that below the cut.

This is based off the would-be scene in the continuation where the new version of Ranboo, the reset one, comes back and successfully locates Tubbo. Tubbo at first thinks he's the "real" one, until he flips over Ranboo's wrist and sees that the tattoo is missing.

Here's the original fic (though this scene isn't in it.)

Here's the post hellenite made with the doc attached.

Complete credit for the idea goes to them!

[gay-mooshrooms]

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE LAUGH AND LOVE UNDER THESE CONDITIONS

(just finished reading fading lights by @hellenite)

[halfapersob]

Fading lights is incredible

Go read it

[tubzthelilbeeboy]

Fading Lights by Hellenite is my roman empire.

Actually, anything written by Hellenite is my roman empire.

[i-am-probably-alive]

Hellenite

Is there ever that one writer that you keep on going back to, over and over, even if you have read and analyzed every single one of their works? And it still gets better each time? There is for me. Fucking Helleniteeeee. I left the DSMP fandom like almost a year ago, yet I still go and have Hellenite binge reads on the regular.

Ad astra was my gateway drug, De Terra is still my favorite fic of all time like ever, possibly even better than most published books I’ve read, anything from LiTWS brings me immense comfort, and Fading Lights….that one stuck with me really really REALLY hard. So did all the other ones, but yknow. That’s a bittersweet ending done right, man. I absolutely adore everything in Hellens style of writing. From the beautiful, captivating description to the absolutely remarkable use of italics, each and every fic has left me crying and begging for more. But there’s three parts that Hellen just does so well, that it honestly shocks me that the whole first page of DSMP isn’t stuffed, head to toe, with Hellenite’s work.

1: Theme

Tackling this first, cause i have a LOT to say about this. Cause, HOLY SHIT!!! Theme! I absolutely just HDRTHHFGGJGJHAZJ. I’m not saying other writers haven’t pulled off themes in fanfic well before, cause they have! But the way Hellenite does it just hits different. Everything has a moral, in one way or another. And the moral is something genuine. Something real, something that happens in real life and that is represented perfectly in all her works. Like, okay. Event Horizon: You can change, you can improve. You are not your past, you are not your family, you are not your mistakes. As long as you’re trying, You’re on the right path. Things don’t get better immediately, they take time. A long, long time, but you are allowed to be happy along the way. Healing is a process, not a teleportation device. LiTWS: A relationship, be it romantic, platonic or familial, can be complicated. They can be difficult to maintain, but you love the other person, so you will work at it to solve your issues. It’s okay to fight, as long as you can acknowledge when you screw up. Communicate. Fading Lights: Life is difficult, but that doesn’t mean you should try and escape it. Find the right people who care about you, even if at the moment you feel or are complete shit. You can recover.

everything just leaves a special impact, because those messages come through. And they come through strong, without being all “LOOK AT ME IM HERE”. It’s just. Wow.

2: Character Development

Change is a very prominent feature in Hellens stories, and it never feels clunky or out of place. You genuinely feel it, but you can’t pinpoint the exact moment things change. Like how in the beginning of Ad Astra, we feel genuine dislike, and very quickly, hatred for Ran. But over time, that changes, and we see how Ran develops and improves. There’s setbacks, there’s relapses, but the change is there. In LiTWS, the relationship goes from somewhat forced, to fully, truly, genuine. Struggles and all. In FL, Tubbo….well. In the beginning, he was an addict who had a gruffish attitude, who was pushing away from society and his friends. He feared that he was turning into his father. He had awful self esteem. By the end, he was willing to change. He was willing to give up smoking and drinking and willing to put himself in an environment that involved Tommy. Change, change, change.

I think it’s all really well done. Cause people change, it’s natural. And it’s done so well here.

3: Love

The way Hellen writes love makes me wish I was in it. But not because it’s written as an all happy and sunshine solution to all wrong. It’s not. It’s written as a strong, complicated emotion. It isn’t written as a one-size fits all. It’s written as something rooted in our hearts that WE get to define, and WE get to use. We love, and it is not a weakness. Love is not a superpower. We all are capable of it, and it doesn’t have to be romantic. Love is…love. It’s so, so SO strong, and I think that this one element is what’s made me cry so much while reading Fading Lights or De Terra or whatever it is. Love. Such a strong meaning for such a small word. I go to Hellens stories and take notes on the way it’s written because it’s just. I hate stories that focus on love, generally. Mostly because they’re written as if it has to be this huge, romantic beats-all card, where the only thing that defines it is the word itself. The characters have to say it for us to know it, and even after that, we don’t believe it. Hellen writes it as it is, which is a difficult feat. These fics are just…wow.

All in all, the way Hellen writes, not only in short term by description and beautiful scenery, but in long term too, leaves such a strong impact. Hellen is definitely, without a doubt, the writer who has most inspired, motivated and influenced the way I write and even the way I think. Hellen has left such a positive mark on me that I’m confident I would be entirely different without having read that one gateway fic. I forgot to mention this, but I read Ad Astra while in a reading slump, and when I say it pulled me out…

also, the concepts in and of themselves are so creative and good and original?? Like how?? And the WORLDBUILDING DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE WORLDBUILDING. HOW??? How does one just make a world so convincing and make it feel so real?? And explore upon it without making it feel like pointless exposition???

TLDR; A year ago, these fics broke into my house, put me in a chokehold, and demanded it be allowed to live there rent free. It still has me in a chokehold, and I give it muffins sometimes.

Theres so much More i can say, and I will probably say it in different posts later. but for now..

I love Hellenites stories more than I love Interstellar, and that’s saying something cause I was a mess by the halfway point of that movie.

Thank you, Hellenite, for each and every one of your stories.

I can’t wait for WGBITN.

(P.S: I realize I sound like an insane fangirl, but whatever. I most likely am one.)

[redhairedgirl95]

All that glitters is not gold

Chapter 10 - Fading lights

We are reaching the end of the line. There are cracks and the light ... can't shine forever.

Happy (late) Easter, winxers! I'm so sorry to have made you wait so long for the update, but it's here! I hove you've enjoyed it and can't wait to hear (read) your thoughts.

Thank you for sticking around <3

[arrow-jsy]

I have no explanation for the sudden hellenite/beeduo surge on this blog. I got my wisdom teeth out and i guess im just hungry for my comfort media..... im not apologizing Hellenite's works on ao3 are masterpieces of literature in my eyes

[dreamcatcherwriting]

workin on a lil something 👀

[gay-mooshrooms]

im about to read fading lights for the first time

wish me luck

[totallynotagremlin]

11 and 19?

11 what’s something neat you’ve learned while doing research for something you were writing? also, how much do you worry about doing research in general?

Its not for directly dr pepper but ive done incredible amounts of research on fae, im talking every little peice of information i coukd find so ive got myths stories how to call upon fae how to watch for one

I dont worry about doing research a whole lot, but i have done some more research more recently but spoilers wont let me disclose what its about

19 what are some books or authors that influenced your style the most?

My writing style is seriously just a mix of my favorite fics i feel like. Ill take certain dynamics that i really liked from hellenites fics, i love how she writes descriptions and emotions and i feel like ive kinda drawn from that

MIDNIGHT, midnight is by far my biggest insperation for dr pepper, atherix is amazing at creating dialog and myths and when im writing certain myths and stories i have pulled up some of the ones in midnight as a refrence point for passing, word choice, basic outlines and a bunch of other stuff

Good crimes also has influence in writing style i feel like, but because gc is based in a modern world it more influences plot points and ideas

Dr pepper truly is a mix between the big 3 hellenite fics midnight and gc, i take elements from all over the place and mash them all together, i also use all these fics along with others to describe fics to other people because i am always thinking about them so i can just like mash em all up and be describe a feel of a fic or book between these 5

For those of you who dont know the big 3 hellenite fics, its event horizon, lost in the woods somewhere, and fading lights. They're bee duo and are genuinly some of the best things ive ever read along with midnight and gc

[lizarddiary]

POV: You’re book 2 (Unspoken) Diajik rethinking your life choices.

Sometimes I bring nice fanart, and sometimes you’re gonna get trashy memes I put together in 10 minutes.

Again, Diajik from the trilogy Fading Lights by @miqomischief (or should i tag @pinxliwrites from now on?)

[ive-fallen]

Alien by the National belongs to Fading Lights beeduo

[i-am-probably-alive]

So me and my sister had a conversation about good writing in fan fiction, and as it always does for me, it led back to Hellenite and more particularly, Fading Lights.

De Terra used to be my favorite.

Now, Im like 95% sure Fading Lights is my favorite.

Like

okay

Fading lights had so much just

scene

so much foreshadowing in a way that isn’t really foreshadowing but leaves the same, if not a stronger, impact when it’s brought back. Like the ice cream. The metaphors. I still can never look at a magnolia the same.

and the ending???

like

Jesus

Hellen’s writing is so beautiful

just so beautiful

the ending had be sobbing for at least an hour.

it was so well written. The letter. The feeling of hope but fear and new life and just djthvgjthddchgfj

I keep on thinking bout Fading Lights.

and honestly if liked Ad Astra or De Terra (event horizon) go read this one right now. Just trust me. Please.

[captainhancock727]

Navjaxx - Fading Lights (4K Official Music Video)