#I reread the ff... nobody please speak to me

[melodyartist-blog]

if ody's to stubborn to be the little spoon, would he let 'laus top him? Odysseus gives aggresive powerbottom vibes and Menelaus is softdom lmao

Time for a rant on the meneody 🎉🎊

It's funny, because yes if I had to explain them it would be like that but at the same time @akaittou 's has done damage/pos to my perception of them. It changed my brain chemicals because it fueled the thing...like a lot.

So in short, yes Laus is the "top" and Ody the "bottom" but every now and then they switch and but most importantly they don't keep the same role. Example: you give a compliment to Laus you have two outcomes, he either melts like a cupcake on an hot day of August or he gets excited like a moose during mating season and get's Incredibly frisky, while Ody may seem stoic, he loves being in control but if you embarrass him in the right way it's over, and that's it (⁠´⁠ε⁠｀⁠ ⁠)

Side note: I had to change the whole context for these drawings for Tumblr, the original are on patreon with some extras

[borderlandscast]

I have read both and I am *eyes emoji* (though I read His Dark Materials when I was, like, 13, and it feels more like a fever dream than anything)

i finished all the main discworld novels this year and hed a very emotional moment turning the last page of ‘the shephard’s crown’, and came across my old notes on discworld au! and i’m currently rereading hdm right now! highly recommend a reread since there’s a lot of naunces that can get lost the first time!

they’re both Solid aus, and given how much of a playground both are? 😏 looking forward to digging around in said sandboxes. for now, have some basic info.

discworld au:

basic plot is that there is a prophecy involving a witch and wizard who must* marry and produce the heir to all magic**. the witch is lomadia, and she owns a cottage overlooking the countryside that overlaps with a bustling trade town. the wizard is rythian, who is seeking to update the catalogue of magic and since he finds the ‘witch’ entry sorely lacking, writes to lomadia (at a friend’s recommendation) seeking help and boarding until he finishes said entry.

ravs is a bachelor nac mac feegle living with lomadia. he feels that her quiet life is in need of some spicing up. after she rejects rythian’s letter (‘wizards are all pomp and faint at the sight of blood, even their own’), he secretly crafts a letter inviting rythian to join her and mails it.

unable to tell the difference between a nac mac feegle and a witch’s handwriting, rythian excitedly hitchhikes all the way to her cottage and on arrival, finds her less than pleased at both him and ravs’ intervention. out of pity (including shameless begging on rythian’s part, and she’s to be a co-author, listed first), she lets him stay.

i don’t know if there’ll be other characters appearing but these three are the main characters so far; ravs possibly ends up making friends with the god of cat lovers, aka, nilesy. who embodies the fanatic devotion people have towards cats. all and any thoughts are appreciated!

* scholars argue amongst themselves if the ‘must’ is necessary because if the royals are free to skip out on holy matrimony, then so should peasants and alike be allowed to do so

** with exceptions (for a complete listing of magics considered magic, head to the unseen university’s library and ask for catalogue applicable to current year, day and hour)

hdm au:

rythian is descended from people who formerly used magic. due to their descendents settling in lyra’s world, the ability skipped many generations until he came along, and with another unusual trait: mythical daemons. rythian’s own daemon settled as a small dragon (called ‘ender’, DON’T JUDGE ME). who can possibly breathe fire.

the two set out to find people who also have unique daemons. the first is ravs, who lives in scotland and has been hiding out in the highlands. ravs has a unicorn daemon (unnamed, gender unknown) that only he can ride; nobody’s kept up with him and his daemon thus far. he agrees to join rythian’s quest. rythian is still very gay for ravs in this au (sorry, i don’t make the rules).

teep is a lone forest ranger who has a cockatrice/basilisk daemon; they’re called basil, and basil has the unfortunate habit of petrifying people if looked upon. thus, basil is always blindfolded, but speaks for teep, who is a person of little words. basil looks like a four legged, scaled and feathered beast with wicked talons, a snake headed tail, and a rooster’s head and neck.

zylus and daltos originate from rythian’s ancestorial world, but wander through an opening and proceed to get horrifically lost when trying to carry out measurements of said opening. the two scholars hold opposing ideas about the nature of dust; zylus believes that dust is finite and there is a set amount in every world to begin with. daltos believes that dust is infinite and relies on the presence of sentient beings. spoiler: they’re both right.

zylus’ daemon is a brown gyrfalcon named ‘griffin’, which initially misleads rythian. daltos’ daemon is ‘dallas’, who is a bearded vulture. both scholars can perform magic; rythian seeks to learn magic in the hopes of writing a book. not sure what kind of magic, but it’s similar to charter magic from garth nix’s abhorsen series!

also all parties are being hunted by the magic police since all are illegal beings and apparently cannot be allowed to exist since magic is bad, and weird daemons wandering about can give people Opinions about the religious authorities, so.

watch this become a clusterf*ck of gay. no daemon’s gender has been decided upon yet since i’m still walking back and forth on the topic.

if y’ll got ideas for certain characters, THROW THEM THIS WAY! i considered giving nilesy a sphinx but having to answer a riddle every single time he asks his daemon to move their ass off his chair? no!!!

note that no turps, c*ff, or sj*n will be written into either of these two aus; i no longer feel comfortable writing them given recent events.