#combine with a deep love of steampunk and working in a botanical gardens

[nettleandthorne]

You say there's only some notes in ariadne is clockwork, but if it's not too nosy, would you like to share one or two ? :]

sure! it's something i really do want to write eventually, so i'm happy to talk about what little i have.

- ariadne: an remarkably lifelike clockwork automaton built to be a gardener; she lives within a vast glasshouse that she maintains and cares for

- almost my fair lady; ariadne is noticed by someone who is amazed by how lifelike she is, and he attempts to pass her off as a real young woman - note: eliza doolittle's 'what am i fit for? what have you left me fit for?' ariadne grows too used to being treated as real to want to return to living as an automaton, but is never real enough to feel as though she fits. what is she fit for when she's too alive for clockwork and too rigid to be alive?

- does she go back to the garden? is that what she wants? could she ever go back?

that's pretty much all i have! it's a story inspired by my own experiences growing up in all-girls school and not knowing that i was autistic, and now struggling to understand where i fit in autistic communities after years spent masking. ariadne is already very close to my heart, and i'd love to write her someday. thank you for this ask! <3