#crossposted on Reddit

[necrospellbinder]

Summer Day with @wickedlittleyumi

[racer4lif3]

Why’d you take his Rambleberries?

Had time in between classes, so I decided to draw a doodle of Rambley :)

[our-queer-experience]

[thinkspam]

[obkkseeker]

uchiha madara’s A+ parenting

obito: and thats why i stole his gunbai fan

[trans-hakuri]

I mean, that's pretty much what he said, right?

[autisticalastor]

What are your Palia headcanons?

I'll go first!

Communicating across a server is just the equivalent of yelling as loud as you can. The villagers absolutely know we say disco deer. They still don't know what it means, though ("wtf is disco? what is a deer???")

They're also probably aware of PCs making references to regular Human stuff that they just don't have any concept of and they think we are very strange for this.

Hassian would listen to Sleep Token and he would love it. (Shoutout to the Tumblr user who's with me on this.)

If Jel was an actual person, he'd be the guy who's so cheerful with the general public, then he gets off work and goes to sit in his car and scream with heavy metal blasting.

Reth would give you stick and pokes if you asked, but you gotta give him one too.

The villagers are unaware we can track them on our maps and are a little freaked out how the Humans can always run right to them, no matter where they are and no matter what time of day or night.

Majiri straight up just don't need to sleep more than a couple hours and that's why their schedules are batshit fucking insane compared to Humans. Some of them do think we're lazy for how long we sleep lol

Jel has ADHD. Hassian and Reth are autistic. Sifuu also gets to be autistic because I like her. You'd think my reasonings here would mean Jina is also autistic, but actually, grad students are just like that.

The reason Einar seems to display less (negative) emotions than Hekla is because he actually just hasn't gone through anything that's made him feel that way before. Man has just always been Fine And Good.

Jel (I think about him a lot) has had relationships before the PC. You're not his first, but you are his best/favorite.

~Spencer

[cadaverousdecay]

never forget what they took from us

[twiinarmageddonss]

[odbuoyjemmity]

Nevermoor Fandom Poll 2024-2025 Results

The poll ran from 17.00 on 28/5/24 to 10.25 on 14/4/25, collecting 208 responses. 

Age Question

Under 13: 2.9% (6) 13-18: 67.8% (141) 19-24: 10.1% (21) 25-30: 3.4% (7) 30-35: 4.8% (10) 35-40: 1.4% (3) 40+: 3.4% (7) Prefer Not to Say: 6.3% (7)

Gender Question:

Female: 56.3% (117) Male: 17.3% (37) Genderfluid: 6.7% (14) Nonbinary: 6.3% (13) Agender: 5.3% (11) Prefer not to say: 4.3% (9) Demigirl: 1.4% (3) Genderqueer: 1% (2) Don’t know/It’s Complicated: 1% (2) 

Sexual Orientation Question

Straight/Heterosexual: 27.9% (58) Bisexual: 22.6% (47) Asexual and/or Aromantic: 13% (27) Prefer Not To Say/Don’t Know: 12.9% (27) Gay/Lesbian:  10.6% (22) Pansexual: 3.8% (8) Unlabeled: 5.8% (12) Aromatic Asexual + Sapphic: 0.5% (1) Bisexual Asexual: 0.5% (1) Oriented Aroace: 0.5% (1) Biromantic: 0.5% (1) Asexual Panromantic: 0.5% (1) Berrisexual or Pan: 0.5% (1)

How long have you been in the Nevermoor fandom?:

Since 2017: 15.9% (33) Since 2018: 12.1% (25) Since 2019: 21.3% (44) Since 2020: 14% (29) Since 2021: 11.6% (24) Since 2022: 8.7% (18) Since 2023: 7.2% (15) Since 2024: 8.2% (17) 2025: 1% (2)

Favourite Nevermoor Character?:

N.B. This question was for one character only. In cases where multiple characters have been listed, the first has been taken and the other discarded. Sorry but it was going to mess up my percentages. Also. I had to hand count these ones and therefore please allow for a teeny tiny bit of human error. There was some doubt around an entry of ‘H. Swift’ since that could refer to three different characters. It has been counted as Hawthorne.

Morrigan Crow: 29.8% (62) Jupiter North: 15.9% (33) Cadence Blackburn: 12.5% (26) Ezra Squall: 11.1% (23) Jack Korrapati: 8.7% (18) Fenestra: 8.2% (17) Hawthorne Swift: 5.3% (11) Lamya Bethari Amati Ra/Lambeth Amara: 1.4% (3) Archan Tate: 1% (2) Helena Swift:  0.5% (1) Mahir Ibrahim: 0.5% (1) Francis Fitzwilliam:  0.5% (1) Rook Rosenfeld:  0.5% (1) Thaddea Mcleod: 0.5% (1) Frank: 0.5% (1) Henry Mildmay: 0.5% (1) Hemingway Onstald: 0.5% (1) Funky Magic Guy (Who is this???): 0.5% (1) Don’t Know/Don’t Have One/Can’t Pick: 1.4% (3)

Corvus Crow Can Go To Hell

Yes - 100%

What Wunsoc School do you belong to?

Mundane: 30.8% (64) Arcane: 40.4% (84) Wundrous: 28.8% (60)

Favourite (Currently Out) Nevermoor Book?: 

Nevermoor: 18.8% (39) Wundersmith: 28.8% (60) Hollowpox: 52.4% (109)

Opinion on Jessica Townsend

Very Positive: 38.5% (80) Positive: 28.4% (59) Neutral: 13% (27) Negative: 1.9% (4) Very Negative: 0% (0) Don’t Know Enough About Her/Not Sure: 18.3% (38)

Opinion on the book series as a whole?:

Very Positive: 88.9% (185) Positive: 9.6% (20) Neutral: 1% (2) Negative: 0.5% (1) Very Negative: 0% (0)

Which character do you think is going to die in Silverborn?

An Elder: 8.7 % (18) Wunsoc Member: 7.7% (16) New Character: 7.7% (16) Cassiel: 5.8% (12) Baz Charlton: 3.4% (7) Corvus Crow: 3.4% (7) Paximus Luck: 2.9% (6) Queen Caledonia: 2.4% (5) Chanda Kali: 2.4% (5) Fenestra: 1.9% (4) Cadence Blackburn: 1.4% (3) Ornella Crow: 1.4% (3) Laurent St James: 1.4% (3) Jupiter North: 1.4% (3) Gideon Steed: 1.4% (3) Unit 919 Member (In general): 1.4% (3) Unit 895 Member (Not including Jupiter): 1% (2) Senator Silverback: 1% (2) Charlton Five Member: 1% (2) Morrigan Crow: 1% (2) Anah Kahlo: 1% (2) Marina Cheery: 1% (2) Safeguard Signatory: 1% (2) Hawthorne Swift: 1% (2) Henry Mildmay: 1% (2) Toby: 0.5% (1) Frank: 0.5% (1) Noelle Devereaux: 0.5% (1) Conall O’Leary: 0.5% (1) Ezra Squall: 0.5% (1) Holliday Wu: 0.5% (1) Kedgeree Burns:  0.5% (1) Unit 919 Patron:  0.5% (1) Nancy Dawson:  0.5% (1) Deucalion Staff Member:  0.5% (1) Israfel:  0.5% (1) Francis Fitzwilliam:  0.5% (1) Meerkatwun from Hollowpox:  0.5% (1) Don’t Know: 21.2% (44) Other: 13% (27)

The returning character:

Noelle Devereaux: 32.2% (67) Israfel: 9.6% (20) Henry Mildmay: 7.7% (16) Ornella Crow: 4.8% (10) Wolfram and Guntram Crow: 3.8% (8) Maud Lowry/President Wintersea: 3.4% (7) Morrigan’s Mother: 2.4% (5) Corvus Crow: 2.4% (5) Crow Family: 2.4% (5) Cassiel: 1.9% (4) Paximus Luck: 1.4% (3) Baz Charlton: 1.4% (3) Sofia: 1.4% (3) Roshni Singh: 1.4% (3) Nurse Tim: 1% (2) Holliday Wu: 1% (2) Ezra Squall: 1% (2) Nancy Dawson: 1% (2) Jupiter North: 0.5% (1) Homer Swift 0.5% (1) The Family Swift: 0.5% (1) Martha: 0.5% (1) Marina Cheery: 0.5% (1) Mr Jones: 0.5% (1) Safeguard Signatories: 0.5% (1) Iguanarama: 0.5% (1) Ravi: 0.5% (1) Heloise Redchurch 0.5% (1) The Kindling: 0.5% (1) Phil: 0.5% (1) Laurent St James: 0.5% (1) Don’t Know: 14.4% (30)

What is your opinion on the Nevermoor fandom itself?

Very Positive: 34.6% (72) Positive: 46.2% (96) Neutral: 17.8% (37)  Negative: 1% (2) Very Negative: 0.5% (1)

What content do you create for the Nevermoor fandom?

Fanart: 28.6% (55) Meta/Analysis/Headcanons: 25.6% (52) Fanfiction: 22% (45) Memes/Incorrect Quotes: 17.7% (37) Edits/AMVs: 4.4% (9) Cosplay: 3.9% (8) Fandom Wiki: 1% (2) Fansite: 0.5% (1) Music: 0.5% (1) None: 52.4% (109)

On which platforms do you engage with the Nevermoor fandom?

Tumblr: 61.1% (127) Reddit: 54.8% (114) TikTok: 13.5% (108) Fanfiction Websites (Archive of Our Own, Wattpad, Quora, FF.net, etc.): 42.8% (89) Pinterest: 27.9% (58) Discord: 24% (50) YouTube: 23.1% (48) Instagram: 13.5% (28) Twitter/X: 3.8% (8) Wiki: 1.9% (4) None: 1.4% (3) Amino: 0.5% (1) Whatsapp: 0.5% (1)

Hot takes:

These have been copypasted verbatim. They do not reflect my own beliefs. Etc.

i do not get why people ship squrth

 hope nobody in unit 919 gets together romantically because the lack of romantic stuff in the series is a bit part of why i feel so connected to the series (im aro and its very hard to find fantasy books without at least romantic subplots)

This fandom is small but very sweet. People are kind and respectful to each other. It is very refreshing after the larger fandoms (SW, HP, LOTR) which sadly have lots of trolls and haters.

i have heard fandoms can be quite toxic (luckily never met one which is) and it seems to me that (at least the discord) is not really toxic

Morrigan and Sqwall are related, other wundersmiths are still alive and held in type of comas at the wintersea Hq

Ezra isn't the biggest villain in the series (might not be that hot a take...).

Jupiter frustrates me to no end.

I really actively despise shipping Mog with anyone idk it just feels weird to me :(

Not really sure what counts as a hot take since the only thing I really see is memes in the fandom

Unit 919 besides the main trio are all opps

people feel greedy for content from the author and from people who create art/fic/anything, and you can't really state your opinion without getting 'called out'

while I see them as siblings, I don’t really mind Morrijack shippers. it’s definitely not my thing, but just because they have the same father figure (and many interpret them as sibling-like) doesn’t actually mean shipping them is “wrong.” not really a hot take anymore, but it used to be a huge point of contention to my memory

There's more of us than we all realise

I want 9 books but I think we will get 7 if we are lucky

I think all my takes are ice cold lol. I think the Baz 5 or whatever they’re called aren’t that bad, they just need better role models

I Think in Canon Morrigan Might be able to travel through time in the future or even better be able to communicate through the ghostly hours to different people. I say this because, the voice Morrigan hears in the alley during Hollowpox could be hers from the future after she has developed mastery over the wundrous arts. And That the Kindling does know about what happened to the wundersmiths but wanted to test morrigan since it also sees the black ice in her heart.

hot take: people mischaracterize my girl cadence so bad!! She's not an angry evil grump all the time! She brought Morrigan a wholeass puppy! Almost no one in-universe remembers she exists— cut her some slack!

honestly? i dont have any hot takes i love this fandom and the books are obviously FANTASTIC

We should see more dragon riding it’s really cool

I don't like Lambeth. I just don't trust her after learning she lied to everyone.

fandom has too many injokes which makes it hard for newcomers to feel welcome (esp if they're introverted). also, the discord server is a mess and needs to halve the amount of channels.

Squall is probably a good guy

Idk if this is a hot take - i actually dont really participate in this fandom - but i reckon its a more well constructed world/plot/series than HP’s. wish i couldve read this as a little girl. i wouldve been obsessed.

The Devereaux ladies school or wtv was not fake and it will become relevant in a later book

There's tway too much questionable content in the fandom

Maud Lowry is Morrigan's mother/related to Morrigan.

Where do they get Nevermoor get all their food? Buying all of it from outside isn't smart when it seems like all their neighbors don't like them and won't even admit that they exist.

I'm not sure if people actually want to see it, or if it's just good old fandom fun (I've read some pretty good Jupiter x Squall fics by people who definitely don't ship them lol), but a lot of people ship different members of Unit 919. My hot take is I want very little actual romantic relationships involving the Unit, if any at all. I'm here for the lore, action, and character dynamics, not really the romance, and I think it would take time away from other aspects of the series. Not every series needs to be heavy on the romance. That being said, I think a little Archthorne couldn't hurt.

I would've wished Nevermoor to be slightly fleshed out more in passing. Like because there would absolutely have to be an underwater section correct? For mermaids and sea creatures wunimals. Even if it was just a brief sentence that would be so cool! (Obviously there are still more books to come but yeah)

I feel like Jupiter is going to struggle far more with Morrigan's apprenticeship to Squall than the fandom currently thinks

People should be nicer about the author’s long COVID delays

taking this as an opportunity to share my overall theory for how the series will play out and end. warning this is A LOT OF TEXT (i'll put a tldr for u bc im not a masochist) (also ignore all of the plot holes :3)

i think squall will get a redemption arc, wunsoc isnt what it seems and is actually a controlling elitist society that bends the social, political, and cultural landscape of the free state to its own benefit, squall realized this, he and the other wundersmiths tried to revolt against them, but he was the only survivor and wunsoc painted him as the murderer to the free state and exiled him and erased the history of wundersmiths for their own gain. the society now wants morrigan to become their tool and vessel to make them stronger (possibly even use her to take over the republic). the republic though also isnt innocent (wunsoc in my pov might be the lesser of two evils). squall is exiled into what is now the republic, but each state had previously been separate nations. squall meets some military dictator (not maud bc this was too long ago), who promises him that if he helps them take over the other countries and form the republic, then they will give him somewhere where wundersmiths can learn their magic in peace and without being used as weapons. he has to accept, because otherwise the history of wundersmiths would be lost as he would be on his own and the reborn wundersmith souls wouldnt know their truth. dictator gains power over the newly formed republic, squall wants to find other wundersmiths but dictator says no bc they still need him as a tool. fast forward present day republic wants to take over the free state, and the free state wants to take over the republic. mog realizes that neither are good, doesnt trust anyone, her own unit feels foreign (except cadence and hawthorne who are by her side no matter what), she has no idea what jupiter's stance would be, she somewhat believes what squall tells her about what really happened but never knows if hes trying to manipulate her, and she cant believe anyone. ALSOOOOOO imagine mog saying to jupiter "do you trust me" and he hesitates but then says "yes" DGDGJSDFGRWUKGILRGHRFKGBJTGHRTVGBHJB im unwell TL;DR - wunsoc is evil, republic is more evil, squall surprisingly is NOT that evil, and helps mog and some wunsoc members overthrow both the republic and wunsoc and return the republic states to being independent nations (maybe great wolfacre becomes part of nevermoor??) and everything ends in harmony and world peace.

I don’t think this is particularly hot but please I need morridence and archawn (100% not the names the fandom uses I’m not in it enough to know)

ppl shouldnt ship any of the unit 919s together. theyre twelve yrs old yall

Jupiter x Squall is a weird ship

Ezra Squall is attached to Mog

Jupiter is asexual

Ezra is through and through evil, i don't believe there's a good part in him, and i don't really want Noelle to come back, i don't care for her

Fandom can focus a lot on squall instead of other characters- still like it nevertheless!

I want to see Mog can closer to more of past/current sub nine members than certain unit members

i dont like how the fandom treats squall tbh.

Jack needs more screen time

I find it kinda weird that some people worship Morrigan or think she's real. Idk, it makes me kinda uncomfortable since she's a teenager. It's like the Snapewives all over again

hawthorne and arch like each other fight me (it’s like drarry except i fucking hate drarry)

I don’t trust the elders

That morrigans mum might be alive or has a huge dramatic life story

Lack of ships is interesting and I kinda want there to be ships

I don't like Hawthorne

Nevermoor is miles better than Harry Potter. Don’t tell my little sister I said that though

Morrigan's mother is alive

i‘m too scared to really get involved even though everyone seems really nice (that’s a me problem though)

Morrigan is eventually going to have to face Corvus, also I really want her to have a relationship with her twin brothers

i think ezras gay ngl

I will forever say Morrigan is straight

Morrijack forever

Some Nevermoor fans are disgusting.

morrigan should have started learning the wundrous arts in book 2

Considering how badly Wunsoc reacted to Morrigan being a Wundersmith, the crew at the Deucalion are far too accepting. Like maybe they're all just genuinely really nice people, but it's likely that some of them do harbour some kind of resentment about it. Like, how couldn't you? There must be some lingering apprehension that they keep quiet because of Jupiter.

Some people in the fandom are disgusting and forget that characters like Jack and Hawthorne are children.

idrk what the consensus is on what characters, facts, events etc. people like or dont like in the series, but all my friends say jack is one of their favourite characters but he is near the bottom of my list.

Hawthorne has a Scottish accent

Ezra Squall is actually a good guy being controlled by the wunsoc

Ezra Squall likes to cooks and wears cute aprons as he does :3

Nurse Tim has a really strong northern irish accent

cold take: baz charlton deserves to rot in hell

I ship Ezra and Jupiter

not a hot take but i HATE morrijack witth a burning passion THEYRE SIBLIGNS

Idk about hot but morrijack can burn in hell. That’s pretty hot

Ezra Squall/Jupiter makes no sense.

Jupiter is a flawed character but tries his best

Morrigan can control / access a wide variety of wunderous controls all around Nevermoor that controlled the city and maybe even some of the pockets if she knew where to look as a wundersmith as stated by squall in the books about how nevermoor is waiting to be brought to life and controlled/ do her bidding seeing as how much the wunderous society relied on wundersmiths before ezra squall.

All the children are gay

every character is aromantic or asexual trust me guys

Idk if this is a hot take but I think it would be interesting to see if Morrigan and Jupiter’s relationship just kind of got a lot worse as she grew up. Sad, but interesting.

Super duper random and unimportant but if Charlie and Martha ever have a seen I reckon he’d also be Charlie (Charlie jr.), but if they had a daughter Martha would absolutely refuse to name her Martha (or after anyone else they know)

Anah and Thaddea are a ship

Mr Jones > Ezra Squall. I don’t like Squall too much. The disguise made him more interesting.

Not so hot of a take, but I'm pretty sure Morrijack has most potential of becoming canon

Jupidad moments are da best

The ninth Wundrous Art is the creation of life.

Considering Ezra Squall a father figure of Morrigan/making any sort of positive light of him is a bad idea considering he’s literally a mass murderer!

whimsigoth/found family thing goes so hard

Yall go to easy on Ezra.

The fandom is too quick to ignore Morrigan's past in the Wintersea Republic

not much of a hot take but mahir is underrated as hell

I dont like morrijack at all

i really dislike jupiter x ezra

I think the emphasis on shipping feels really out of place int his fandom tbh. Idk, I get having headcanons about the characters’ sexualities and I do that too, but I just don’t see much shipping potential in the characters? Theyre just besties/found family and that’s part of what I love about them

don't think I have any but. live and let live let people have fun it's not really your business what they want to do

any fanfic I’ve read that tries to redeem squall usually completely loses all his characterisation in the process, even though I think it’s possible to have redeemed (and BY THAT I mean a squall who cares about Morrigan and other people and understands and is effected by hurt he has caused) squall with canon characterisation. You just have to work HARD.

I hate frank

Wuncos is hiding somenthing

i hope romantic relationships only play a minimal role as the series goes along

Ezra never did commit the massacre. Onstaldt knew this

Jack isn't gay

I don’t fully trust jupiter

What’s something you’d like to see more of in the fandom?

Again, copied verbatim. 

fic? in general but particularly canon divergent fic

More fanart of minor characters ! and art in general, i love seeing all of it :^)

More new fan content (since it's never enough :)))

I just want the fandom to EXIST outside tumblr. Like on tiktok specifically. I need company over there!!!

Engagement

Activity

Non shipping fan works

More theorizing and engagement

Fan art of places/scenes

More world analyses to try and understand the physical backdrop of Nevermoor and the Free State (geography, time period, etc)

The fandom it self I want someone to actually talk about the book series with

Story discussions and analysis

literally everything

Memes

more interaction and support for the people who create things for the fandom

More people in it. It's really welcoming and it would be nice to have more people in general around here. Other than that it would be art because it's something I massively support.

ANIMATICS! obviously as an artist I understand that they are difficult and time-consuming to make, but as an art enjoyer ……. I want them I want to see themmmmmmm

Art

Humans

More main trio/unit 919 being friends <333 that’s like the main thing the fandom does but I still want more <333

fanart theres some wonderful artists in the fandom

More sharing of fanfics across the different platforms so as to

animatics.... I'm working on one and it's super fun, but a very long process. ooh and audio dramas/read a louds. And I love seeing theories and things, both about plot and worldbuilding stuff

every single member of 919 and the kajillion different dynamics they all have with each other. i dont care if theyve showed up twice fic justice for mahir and francis and anah and arch and thaddea and lambeth and and and

Theory

MORE EVERYTHING! More Mog more art more absolutely incoherent posts more theories I love everything that’s going on it’s the best

More stuff about the side characters

I would like to see more people in general in the Fandom.

Updates

Engagement

More active Subreddit

PEOPLE

fanart fanfic anything everything

People being a bit less delicate.

More engagement from Jessica Townsend

Drawings of the places in nevermoor. Like I cannot draw places well at all but I rlly wanna see ppls interpretations of nevermoor, the deucalion, Wunsoc, etc

Ppl that use there power in unique ways

ANYTHING LIKE PLEASEEE

Anything

Artwork

Cosplays!!!

I love reading fanfiction, but a lot of people are not actively writing it. Also some of the fanfiction written is (sort of?) weird and unethical. I don't have any accounts to make fan content myself or talk to other members of the fandom, but I check Reddit and Wattpad almost every day to see if there's new content by others.

More maps!

Everything 😪

Theory

How do I not see anything?! Just want to see more generally, I think!

I like a lot about where the (Tumblr) fandom is at right now (no ship wars, big controversies, or other fights that I know of right now), but I think it would be nice to see a little variety in headcanons and theories, because it feels like a little bit of an echo chamber right now (for example, it's almost always the same 919 members being shipped together). But I'm also afraid that more varied opinions will bring more fights with them, and I don't want to see our fandom fall into huge, meaningless arguments.

Wunimals fanfictions!!

Common human decency

Is it predictable if I say Helena? I‘d also love to see more ms. Cheery & Morrigan stuff. And more of the deucalion staff.

Finestra

group activities!! (not necessary though because i understand how difficult it is to create these activities and im so grateful for mogtober and nevermay and i love the fandom and wouldnt want anyone to feel any pressure i just love these events so much!!)

Arttt

Engagement, activities, polls, questions, discussions

Everything!! Let's get creating!!

Morrigan's grandmother

Theories

Cadence content!!

Jupiter love interest (Queen Cressida is a past lover mark my words)

uh.... edits, i guess.

You can never have too much fanart.

JACK and the school

OC's. I don't wanna feel like I'm the only one who has them 😭

for r/nevermoor memes to be more active

gay people that’s all

Ezra Squall

Fanart

Fanfics

fanart and fanfiction

Interesting takes on the books

Fanart

Fanfiction

Memes

Ezra/Jupiter

More fandom interaction in general tbh but that’s a tough ask 😭

i can’t get enough theories

Well written fanfiction

more poeple to try out the book its great!

Theories

High quality edits and video content and whole

hard quizzes

Lambeth's family

More fans in tiktok, edits and stuff.

Maybe more on the Wundrous Arts

More about the Wundrous Arts

Cool tiktok edits!!! (I'm not talented enough to edit my self)

videosss. this series may as well not exist on youtube lol. Even something simple, doesnt have to be a fancy animation. Just talk about theories, or make a hunger game simulator video, or ANYTHING. :]

More general attention! This series is so underrated!

Whatever interests ppl, thats a good way to learn/think abt new things

Fanart!!

Memes

analysis and music

more fanart

Discussion

Angst headcanons.

tiktoks 🥴

Archthorne!!! Also general like the background characters. Amir and Francis are so underrated I love my babies

Literally any content whatsoever. Maybe headcannons specifically. I looooovvveee seeing different people’s takes on things.

More gay ships and more fanart

Fan art of other characters

Unit 919 bonding

Always more fanart

not sure- general extra engagement would be nice

More Wuns (and Unwuns) joining the fandom + more fanfiction and fanart :))

Mogtober. I’m loving Mogtober and am super excited for it 2024.

Ezra Squall back story

Fan theories or answers to unanswered questions

Fanart. Mooore

Analysis of little details, more memes (not incorrect quotes, normal memes)

More people joining into the fandom 😭

More heavy-lore theories

Jupiter North/ Ezra squall fanfics

Comics

More detailed discussion would be lovely

Cosplays :D

more activity on reddit

Groupchat fics

Fanart! Not that there’s not enough I just love it so much

Fanart! Not that there’s not enough I just love it so much

honestly just some more basic fanfiction about the units day to day life

fanart!! esp of less drawn characters

Jupiter's background

More fanfic!!!!! And more Jupidad, always more Jupidad with his two wonderful sassy little children

morrigan/francis and morrigan/thaddea just little cute things, and the ADULTS’ DRAMA! I wanna know holliday wu and dame chanda did as teenagers (together… I think they were friends at some point)

Jupidad

Fanfics

Living map/dioramas Evil Morrigan and more theories for the end of the series.

Cosplay

Getting weird with it! You don't need to create for an audience, I'm a firm believer in making art for you and your one other freak. Make theories that are mostly speculation, write for a pairing that nobody's even thought of, draw fanart even if you don't think it's "good enough". Be cringe, be free.

Ezra Squall

What Fandom Events do you participate in?

Mogtober: 29.8% (62) Big Bang: 5.8% (12) Nevermay: 8.2% (17) Silverborn Countdowns: 1% (2) None: 72.6% (151)

[toastily]

hello furby tumblr long time no see

WHO is this man . it was in the heydudes furby collab ad on tiktok and ive NEVER seen this colorway before i feel crazy

[spac3d0lls]

i think that nischa and talia can coexist and i think that if the romantic subtext in noel and mischa’s relationship (especially during the second half of the show) was done intentionally, then it’s a very beautiful representation of the two coming to terms with their deaths.

noel wished to lead a tragic life and die with something interesting to his name, and obviously never got that in life. mischa wanted to live a happy life with his girlfriend, and unfortunately never got that either.

for noel, mischa is the realization that he can stop seeking out tragedy and have a cute high school romance even if it’s in limbo and an hour before he goes on to the afterlife.

for mischa, noel is what helped him realize that he most likely would never meet talia, and even though he misses her dearly, he feels comfortable enough to go onto the afterlife with noel because he has to learn to live (live?? die?? idk) with the knowledge that talia will move on in life with him out of the picture.

[madeleinelovescolours]

[thinkspam]

[onceinalifetimeremaininlight1980]

Hello I wrote something

Disco elysium endgame spoilers

This one goes out to all the women I love you women

Everybody gets sad sometimes, Harry. Everybody gets down sometimes. Everyone except me. You're just always so fucking miserable and my heart aches for you because I loved you. And so I push back own sadness, my own pain, my own troubles. Just for the morning. Just til tomorrow, when he's feeling better. Your bad day is your bad week is your bad year until I don't have any room for my own. I can feel myself shrinking as a person every time I'm around you, shrinking and shrinking into just another tool you use to hurt yourself.

You have a vast and oceanic soul and I'm fucking drowning in it.

At first it was flattering, the way you looked up to me. They always say it's a good thing that he treats you like a goddess. I can't believe it took me this long to see that even when it was good it wasn't actually that good. I look back to our better days and think, were you ever even in love with me? Or just the idea of me? The me that you had built up in your head? Faultless, until even a normal human fault is a war crime, for falling outside that divinity? I'm not even a person to you now. But was I ever? On the best days it's a pedestal that keeps me from being human. On the worst, it's a cliff's edge you dangle me over. Maybe I stayed for so long because I'd forgotten what it was like to be free. Maybe I never had the opportunity to be free, because I never knew better, because you were my first everything, weren't you? I didn't know any different.

You're so in love with your own misery that there isn't any room for me. You only love me for the way you use me to make yourself miserable. It dawned on me, I never even fully realised everything I lost.

Even when I made the choice to leave that isn't my own choice as a human. That's the nature of all women. That's the choice of the middle class. That's the inevitability of the pale. Not even my last choice between us was my choice to you, that's how deeply I lost my personhood.

I thought you would wake up one day and choose me. But you never will. So I had to do it myself. I thought I would be free. But even after I left I'm still not free, am I? I'm still trapped in here in this dream with you, week after week, forever.

[mastermatoyas]

Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem - A Long-Overdue Review

Way back in 2015, I was a fresh-faced 21 year old just getting into the world of visual novels - specifically otome games. At the time, there was a lot of buzz about this one upcoming game with a really promising demo - Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem, slated for a 2016 release.

Nine years later, it's finally out (in early access)! Let's see if it was worth the wait.

What kind of game is this, anyway?

Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem was, and is, unlike any other game I have ever seen before. Considering the absolute development hell it went through, I doubt we'll ever see a game quite like it again. The demo that I played back in the day included the first three weeks of the game, and it had me absolutely hooked.

Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem is a stat-raising visual novel. Basically, it's a game focused on storytelling through text and still images, with the core gameplay loop consisting of raising various skills in order to pass (or fail) challenges. The game is set on the mysterious Vail Isle, where seven nations have each sent seven young representatives to forge political alliances (through marriage or otherwise), advance their nation's interests, and - at least ostensibly - protect the fragile peace between them.

As the player, you create a character from one of six nations (the seventh nation, Skalt, is not an option), build their stats, and try to survive seven weeks on the island (and maybe find love along the way?). The game is notoriously difficult - if you go in blind, you'll almost certainly fuck up at least a few things massively. There are two difficulty settings, Challenge Mode and Story Mode. In Challenge Mode, you can fail badly enough to either get kicked off the island or die. Story Mode is a little kinder - certain skill checks have lower requirements (at least allegedly), and no matter what you do, you won't die or get sent home early. You can still fuck up in just about every other way possible in Story Mode, though.

The choices you make during character creation have a major impact on your success or failure. Aside from the stats you raise during character creation, and the background you choose, there are also a number of options you can choose to influence your character's personality. Although all stats have some relevance, some of them end up being a lot more important than others - which makes sense, since this is a social and political simulator. Being good at talking to people is going to get you a lot further than being good at self-defence.

The gameplay loop

This, to me, is what makes 7KPP unique. It's actually possible, in a single playthrough, to impress every character and get the best possible outcome for every nation. It's also incredibly difficult, and requires making the right choices at basically every turn. You have to say the right things to the right people while having the right stats, and be in the right place at the right time. You have to minmax your character from the moment you start creating them, and never stop min-maxing both your stats and your relationships.

And it is FUN AS HELL.

Obviously, you don't actually "have" to do any of this. You can play the game normally, and get some good outcomes and some bad outcomes. I'd recommend doing this on your first playthrough at least, to get a feel for the game before you get bogged down in spreadsheet guides.

The stat-raising gameplay is roughly similar to raising simulators like Princess Maker or Long Live the Queen, but it's also not quite the same. It's not like stat-raising visual novels are a new concept, but I've never found anything that does quite what this game does the way it does it.

Characters

This game contains... hang on, let me count. I think eleven romance routes plus one friendship route, three characters that you can befriend (but not romance) outside of their full route, three more love interests that haven't been implemented yet, a rival character, and a few other important characters.

The cast is massive, is my point. But pretty much every character has at least some level of depth. They all have their own goals and motivations, and you can either help or hinder them. There are actually more routes than there are love/friendship interests, because political marriages are an option in the game separate from romances. Depending on your choices, certain other characters may enter into political marriages.

There's a wide range of characters, and I'm not going to describe them all here. I am, however, going to give a special shout out to the female love interests in the game. There are three at the moment (with two more coming), which is a pretty good ratio for a game about political marriages set in a fantasy world where only one kingdom allows same-sex marriage to begin with. It also avoids one of the common pitfalls I've found in games with both male and female love interests, in that the female love interests are actually interesting. Your options are:

Meek shy maid. She's very sweet and I like her a lot, but I'll admit to not finding that character type super interesting as a love interest. Nevertheless, this type of love interest seems really common in Western indie visual novels with both male and female love intersts. I think it's because they're broadly non-threatening?

Cool, tough warrior lady with the heart of a golden retriever. This is Tumblr, the muscle woman website, so I probably don't need to sell you on this one.

Evil princess. This is great for me, because I love complicated relationships in fiction, and because I had become resigned to the Bioware style habit game devs have of making the mean women straight. That is not the case here! They actually let you have the toxic yuri of your dreams! You can kinda fix her, or you can make her worse. I think she can also make you worse. Not sure. Either way, I haven't played her route yet, but I am so looking forward to it.

For the first half of the game, you'll probably spend a lot of time getting to know the various characters. The plot picks up in the later half of the game, which means that you have a lot less time to spend with the various characters, especially romanceable characters other than the love interest you chose. To be honest, that made me a bit sad - I put a lot of effort into trying to befriend all of the love interests, and it would have been nice to spend more time with them. Although considering that it's really hard to befriend them without them also developing romantic feelings for you, it does make a lot of sense - they distance themselves from you after being rejected.

They do show up throughout the story as well, in the later weeks, but if I had a criticism of the character writing, it's that I would have liked the love interests you don't choose to have a bit more relevance. However, given the massive amount of branching in the game and the fact that they are still actually there and involved in a lot of major story moments, it's not a major criticism. Realistically, I don't think they could have done more with those characters than they actually did - I just grew fond of them, and wanted to see more of them.

Luckily, this game has a ridiculous amount of replay value, so I'm sure I'll see more of them on their own routes.

Story and writing

Honestly, I think this is the part of the game that's going to be the most hit or miss. I personally really enjoyed the story, but the premise involves a basic assumption about human nature that I think is going to chafe for a lot of people: namely, the assumption that diplomacy can work.

The world of 7KPP is on the brink of war. It is possible, although extremely difficult, to turn that situation around through sheer skill and diplomacy, and instead bring all of the nations into a golden age of peace and cooperation. I think it's very easy to say that this is unrealistic - that people never change just because someone said the right things at the right time. And to a certain extent, that might be true.

But also, it's a video game. If you do all the right things and you're really good at the game, you get rewarded with outcomes that are maybe a bit unrealistic. That's true for all kinds of games, not just this one. If you play normally, you'll probably get some realistically ordinary or even depressing outcomes. You have to earn your happy ending. Right now, at this point in history, it's very easy to see the worst of humanity. It's very easy to believe that things keep getting worse, that selfishness and greed will always win out. And it's true, they often do.

But I think it's important to remember that it doesn't have to be that way. Sometimes, miracles really do occur. Sometimes, people and society really do change. For all of the misery of the past few decades, we've also seen a lot of amazing people doing amazing things, individually and collectively. I think most people, fundamentally, want to live in a world that does not suck, and 7KPP is a game about reminding people of that fact.

Basically, I agree with the fundamental philosophy of the game, and I think the fact that you can fix everyone's problems if you play the game right is a feature and not a bug. But I can see how that philosophy is going to be a much tougher sell in 2024 than it was in 2015.

I will say that the writing can be a bit clumsy at times. There are a lot of typos in the later sections of the game (although those will probably be fixed), and the prose and dialogue can sometimes be a bit... unpolished, I suppose. I think that's mostly just a matter of experience, to be honest. This was the dev's first project, so I suspect that her future work will benefit greatly from the ten years she spent writing 7KPP. I'll hasten to add that the writing isn't, by any means, bad. If you're not especially picky about prose, you'll probably think I'm being overly harsh. Most indie visual novels don't meet the standard I'm imposing on 7KPP here, but I'm still going to impose that standard because I don't want anyone to buy the game as a result of my review and then end up being disappointed by this aspect of it.

Other

The game was made in Ren'py by a solo dev who isn't a programmer, so the code is apparently duct taped together under the hood. I didn't encounter any bugs, so that hasn't been a problem for me.

The game balance is kind of amazing - it's really impressive just how tight the skill checks are if you're going for the best possible result, without any New Game Plus bonuses. It's doable, but only just, and I can't imagine how much of a headache it must have been to make that happen.

I find the UI kind of ugly, if I'm being honest. It's not super navigable, and it's somewhat unfinished, with the calendar only going up to Week 3 (unless that's a bug). Apparently the UI is on the list of things that they're going to attempt to fix throughout early access, with the dev planning to hire on someone with more programming experience.

I like the art style. It's quite unique, which is going to put off a certain sub-section of the visual novel community, but oh well. There aren't a huge number of CGs, or flashy effects or anything like that, but I don't think this game really needs that to begin with.

Most (possibly all?) of the music is creative commons, so it's nothing special. I did feel like some of the music wasn't a great choice for the mood, although I generally liked the character leitmotifs. They very clearly did not have the budget for original music, and it's also pretty far down the list of priorities, so that's not a real complaint. If they'd had infinite resources, it would have been cool to see some original music. They did not have infinite resources, and it would be unrealistic to expect anything other than what we got.

Conclusion

Here's the link to the game on itch.

I would heartily recommend buying the game if you enjoy any of the following:

Visual novels in general

Political intrigue

Complex stat raisers

Interesting and likeable ensemble casts; or

Innovative video games, just in general. Seriously, I meant it when I said that there is nothing quite like this game out there. You really do need to experience it in order to understand that.

Despite the relatively minor criticisms I've had, I really believe in this game. I believe it's something special, and after the amount of time it spent in development hell, I really, really want it to succeed. I will wear my bias on my sleeve here - I want to see more devs take these kinds of risks. I want this dev's ten years of work to pay off.

It's not a perfect ten, but it's a ten to me, damn it.

Side notes

This game used to have a thriving fandom on Tumblr, but that well and truly died. There are some active threads on the itch.io community page for the game, but I want to know where to go to post memes. If anyone knows, please tell me.

I hope it isn't Twitter, though. Fuck that.

I somehow got into this game right after the Kickstarter ended, which I've been salty about for nine years. I literally just missed it. Absolute tragedy.

I'm aware that the creator is active on Tumblr, and since I'm tagging this post with the game's tag, there's a non-zero likelihood that she'll read it. So, Aly, if you've read this far: hi! I really liked your game! Hope you're doing well. It's honestly a bit awkward to review a game knowing that the dev might see it, since it's always going to include some element of unsolicited criticism, but there's no real way around that. This review was aimed at potential players, which meant that I had to be comprehensive and honest. I hope that makes sense.