#Vikings ask

[chickensauras]

I never know the 'best' way to post these, but: 5 page comic. Thorfinn 'no you!'-ing his way into a regular gig

Vaguely a stream of consciousness and tonally inconsistent continuation off this other comic

[70sscifiart]

Hello,

First of all Love you Book!!!

I'm hoping you can help me out, i've been trying to fin an old image from a book cover of a group of 'Space' Vikings leading their horses of a ramp of a space-ship. It was from a science fiction analog or almanac book from the 70's i think.

Hoping you can help, i have been searching for ages trying to find it!

Malcolm

Hm, nothing matching that description comes to mind immediately, but maybe some of my followers know it!

I did think of these two Analog covers just because of the Viking connection, but they aren't the same scene at all, of course. Left is by John Schoenherr, right is by Frank Kelly Freas. My Viking tag has a few more interesting covers, too.

[zu-is-here]

Zu, I can be a little horrible for what I'm saying but in Viking Au, Nightmare could have told Horror that Cross was planning to betray him to get rid of Cross... but also to get revenge on Horror (⁠●⁠´⁠⌓⁠`⁠●⁠)

Like you said he was pretty frail when he was smaller, and now he's got an important role. But he may still have resentments towards people in his village who have always been powerful enough not to be mocked. And Horror was the most powerful, so he was a bit of a scapegoat for his resentment (⁠๑⁠•⁠﹏⁠•⁠)

Oh you've got a point! Σ(-᷅_-᷄๑)

Nightmare was smart enough to turn the situation to his advantage against both of them at once (but miscalculated a bit anyway :')

Although it was advantageous for him to stay an advisor to the strongest monster of the tribe, since he could control Horror through his tips and “the will of the gods” (not always, unlucky, since Horror was a rather stubborn ruler ò_ó)

But after suffering enough, Nightmare finally found a gold mine, and he wasn't gonna leave it so soon.

[ratlordsarah]

14 y/o hiccup playing dnd with the Forrest bears, snakes, and other wild animals. Send post.

[zecoritheweirdone]

behold! the reason i remembered to post the viking design! sooo i was rotating musithical's latest bhsmp episode in my mind, especially to try and figure out how it could fit into the medieval bounty hunters au, because like Fools we started brainstorming plot ideas before the series is finished. if i were smarter i'd wait to flesh this out until the series is done, or at the very least until the next episode is out, and believe me that was my original intention! but. the ideas. they got to me.

anyway. what if you pushed your friend off a cliff during a fight because he tried to kill you not too long ago, and while you originally made your peace with each other, now you're afraid of him doing that again; except as soon as you pushed him off you regretted it but it's too late, he's dead now, so you continue to make your way up this mountain while trying not to reflect on what you did and the fact you're alone now; and then it starts thundering so you stop to set up camp, but several minutes later while you're wallowing in self pity, you look up and your friend is standing right there, alive. and for a moment you're filled with immense relief before remembering, wait, he tried to kill you before, and you just tried to kill him. and now he's right here in front of you, and he's pissed.

[dragons-of-jotunheim]

Long Haired Snotlout...For the soul

[witchofthesouls]

What’s some behaviours that seeker Lennox do that unnerve the humans or other bots that don’t fly?

The new Seekers/ex-humans sleep a lot compared to the Autobots to the point that mechs were concerned over the newbuilds. It's just the remnants of the human circadian rhythm, Cybertronians function on a far longer time clock, so they'll eventually adjust to it.

The humans think that the lovebirds are too into each other since Will and Sarah are basically wrapped up with each other in spare time. Freaks out some humans when they meld their frames partially together. Meanwhile, the Cybertronians are going, "Yep. That makes sense. Those are newly wedded and bedded newbuild Seekers." It's really intense, somewhat uncomfortable on how aggressive affectionate they are, but still understandable. Some mechs are making secret bets on when and where a poor squishy will see the natural sight of two Seekers going down and dirty.

It took a while for the human personnel to understand why the Seeker pair shower together or have someone else with them. It's a natural extension of their new frame sociality matrix since grooming a wingspan needs an extra pair of hands and it's a pleasant bonding activity. Ironhide is their usual go-to, but they had taken Optimus and Ratchet into their shower sessions.

Some of the Autobots think that Sarah is highly territorial and standoffish since she constantly wraps Will up with her own field and likes a certain degree of space. The Arcee sisters are careful not to stand too close to Will for that reason as they don't want to be seen as issuing a potential Challenge. Will doesn't understand it, but his frame does and likes it since it's a low-key awareness of where his wife and child are. Ironhide is trying to wrangle it back into more neutral feel, but Sarah isn't having it.

Sarah enjoys rising with the sun as she did her early morning yoga routine. It freaked out the Cybertronians how flexible her frame was, especially with her armor density.

None of the Cybertronians are ready to see how blase the Lennoxes are with doing things unarmored, especially when the Autobots caught up with the pair when Sarah managed to locate another vein and she was taking a dip in a geyser. Just her bared legs. Or whenever they shower together since humans take off their clothes, but Cybertronians are able to shower with their armature on.

Oh, and here's a little snippet:

“So besides the wings and chicken legs, what else you got?” Epps asked.

“I can literally smell everything half a mile away,” Lennox took in another deep vent, his mouth parted open similar to an insect’s mandibles, playing it up as his frame shifted to accommodate the air and his tongue flicked out. Epps looked up in wide-eyed, horrified fascination, at the long, segmented appendage coiling in the air.

“Man, you’re just fucking with me at this point.”

“Well, it was chili night.”

“Foyer’s?”

“Yep.” Both mech and human stared at the distant mess hall.

“I can already smell the barracks tonight. Thor will be blowing thunder all night long."

[phneltwrites]

omg looking at the ask game and realizing you have THREE space aus! wow what a treat! but i would like to ask specifically about the space vikings

I LOVE SPACE

ok i actually have quite a bit of this written but it's all in chat format because space vikings is a collab w a beloved friend. and I was like I can turn that into actual prose so I can share but i uh. didn't. so. i might come back to this later

background:

Wilhelm is a space viking living on a generation ship that is slowly moving through Simon's solar system on its way to its final home destination. Several generations into this, the myth they have is that they left a planet in the middle of ragnarok and are moving to a new land. Generation ship looks like this

Big enough to support multiple communities but not so big that they don't need to raid and trade to keep themselves going.

Simon is on a planet with earth level technology which means they know that the vikings come from space but they think it's another planet and they can't find them and they can't do anything to stop them coming from raiding. He's a travelling bard and gets scooped up on a raid and taken to the ship.

Now. Here is the thing. This fic has a lot of worldbuilding (thank u to my friend who let me go wild) but fundamentally it is a bodice ripper. This is captive-captor romance. This is 'I'm so tortured by the evil that I do' v 'uh I'm kind of the guy having the evil done to him' romance.

(I saw this picture and was like. that's a resentful concubine)

Wilhelm has never taken a thrall before, secretly disagrees with the practice, but he heard Simon sing when they were scouting and when he's brought aboard the small raiding ship they use, the one that uses sun sails and can only travel within a solar system, he cannot allow August to claim him. August should hand him over due to Wilhelm's social position as son of the jarl, but August challenges him and Wilhelm, best berserker in their village, defeats him and humiliates him and takes Simon.

Cue like every trope you can think of here. People being like ooh you never had one before must be special. August wanting to get back at Wilhelm. Simon not being a very good captive and Wilhelm maybe having to do a little maiming to protect him. Wilhelm being like 'well if you just learned the rules' to Simon even though the rules are oppressive. ...Wilhelm maybe having to put Simon on display a little.

"This is how it works Simon. Now you're safe because I'm strong and you weren't before because you weren't."

Wilhelm is like "I'm not like the rest of them, I chop my own wood with my laser axe and I tend my own garden and--"

"And you keep me as your slave."

(and then they leave viking society because Simon is right and being a killing machine is destroying Wilhelm yaaay)

ask game

[evilwriter37]

I like to think that Stoick actually gave a bunch of ingredients to Hiccup to make bread. “You may have killed the biggest dragon, I think you should stick to bread making for a while when your leg is healing.”

Okay, that’s a funny image. I love it!

[littlefreya]

Called OUT

Ooops 👀 that’s definitely us

[thoughtsofananon]

Gilded Hardcore you will always be famous

Closeups under cut

[gramnel]

Here we go, @papysanzo

Thank you for the idea, although I feel like a cheated a little with flowers hehe👁️ but I like the way it all turned out!

[zu-is-here]

Your Viking drawings are so cool. I love NM's role.

[crag-the-caveman]

Question: can you comprehend this

Yeah, that is a cat. Just because Crag am provincial doesn't mean Crag am not "with it"

[drewsstars]

hii, do you mind explaining why your vikings dr was sad and what unexpected things happened? it's okay if you're not comfortable answering it, but it got me curious even though i've never watched vikings

i don't mind talking about it AT ALL. It was my first shifting experience, i love talking abt it 🙏🏼

my plans for this dr were to shift to season three, become bjorn's wife, and take care of hvitserk (bjorn's younger brother).

i was so so so happy when i woke up in kattegat, but it took me about 2 minutes to realize that was NOT my desired reality lol 😭 i ended up shifting to the end of the last season, i was bjorn's widow, recently married to harald finehair, king of Norway, obviously not because i loved him, it was just a matter of keeping myself important. the problem is that i don't like him at all, and he liked me way too much.

bjorn had just died, and i was really in grief, you know? not sad like "oh my s/o is dead, i wish i could have met him" but actually in mourning, so i was sad all the time. Bjorn and i had 3 kids there, Aslaug, Erik, and Halfdan. aslaug and erik hated harald, Halfdan was too young to understand, tho.

and hvitserk was with the enemy 🤪🤪🥳🙌🏻🩷🩷🩷 since you haven't watched vikings you don't know that, but most seasons are like a civil war between four brothers, bjorn and ubbe against hvitserk and ivar. bjorn dies trying to defeat them. in my dr i wanted to avoid this, but i couldn't. ivar actually "killed" bjorn just like in the show, and hvitserk was by his side, so yeah... i was in war against my two favorite characters 🤡 but it didn't last much cause harald decided to ally with them cause they had plans to start a war against england... yes, you read that right, they killed my husband and then they became allys. they start living in kattegat to plan the war and i was like 🧍🏼‍♀️, A MESS! but hvitserk and ivar liked me cause i actually took care of them when they were kids, so they weren't making my life a hell (on purpose).

Harald / Bjorn Ivar / Hvitserk

bjorn, you are so missed 😭

[whyisaravenlike-awritingdesk]

hold me like a knife please 🥺🤲🏻

I actually have very little of the next chapter written but there is one single scene that’s made it past the bullet-point stage and I love it because Rhys is about to lose his mind 🤣

Smoothly Cassian slipped out of his bedchamber only to find his brother waiting, murderous, in the hallway.

Thunder flashed in Rhys’ features, enough to make even Thor tremble, and if Cassian had been a weaker man, he might have shirked from the wrath in his brother’s gaze— might have waited for the swing of an axe. But Cassian only blinked in wry amusement, plucking at the collar of his tunic and straightening the neckline until he looked a little less like he’d just rolled out of bed, freshly-fucked.

Even in the face of Rhys’ encompassing anger, Cassian couldn’t fight the way his lip quirked at the thought. At the memory it brought, of Nesta’s hands in his hair the night before, her nails dragging down his chest, leaving marks behind.

“Did I not specifically instruct,” Rhys began, his voice a lethal whisper, “that there was to be no in-fighting whilst the Saxons were here?”