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[eskildit]

i still love the scene in gtn where gideon cam and jeannemary all look at pal like 🤨 for suggesting you learn sword fighting from a book. they should have shoved him in a locker

[liesmyth]

to throw on some ninth house lore,

This has been rotating in my mind like the rotisserie chicken. Was it you who suggested that maybe what the Reverend Parents did also made the current Ninth population infertile... it would track with how the Houses have such low natality rates because something something the Resurrection, can you create life when your power comes from death?

[arithmonym]

20 questions for 20 writers!

thanks to @accidentallyadorable for tagging me! this was fun. :3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

30! only 20 are visible from my profile, though. my older fics and drabbles are quarantined to a separate account, and a few things are posted anonymously.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

113,190 words.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

it’s mostly the locked tomb these days. i also have a few old works for the penumbra podcast, the magnus archives, and the adventure zone—and a few even older works for harry potter and percy jackson, but those are on ff.net so i can pretend they don’t exist.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

it’s familiar (but not too familiar) - fluffy griddlehark time travel fic. this was my first attempt at writing them and i could definitely do a better job now, but the prose still holds up.

alive, barely breathing - post-canon griddlehark first time fic that’s fucked-up and sad. sometimes i look at the comments when i want to feel good about my writing. :3

bring your hunger - post-canon griddlehark grief/relationship study. also a WIP. (honestly, this one might go on anon for a bit—it’s vulnerable in ways i don’t want to explain, and i’m shying away from writing the next chapter because the Fear of Being Known got to me a little.)

it’s not unusual - fluffy modern AU where team 69 go to a bar and play catan. palamedes has an oral fixation, because of course he does. this one is campal with background griddlehark getting-together, but i might write a sequel from harrow’s POV someday.

bad idea right? - modern AU chatfic inspired by this post by eskildit. it’s about camilla dealing with the paldulcie situationship™️ & enduring so much dyke drama thanks to the nature of her friend group. it received a podfic recently, which is fun!

(… i also want to write a camdulcie sequel for this one. i’ve been rotating the idea frequently.)

5. Do you respond to comments?

almost always. there are a few scattered comments i haven’t replied to yet, but i like responding! it’s an excuse to drop more lore about the fic and the writing process, IMO.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angiest ending?

the ace cam fic i haven’t finished yet, which will probably be posted on anon. (i feel like people are going to attack me for poor representation or something, but it’s inspired by my own experiences, so. can’t win them all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

something sweet is pure, uncomplicated fluff, so i guess i’ll go with that!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

not really. i’ve blocked a few people for being rude, but i haven’t gotten hate in years.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

occasionally. i’ve only posted 4 explicit fics, but so far it’s a pretty even mix of f/f, f/m, and other.

10. Do you write crossovers?

i have a tlt/w359 fusion AU i want to pick up again! i need to untangle some threads of the metaplot, though.

(also, the first fic i published on ff.net was a harry potter/rise of the guardians crossover. yes. it was cringe. yes, it’s probably still posted on the internet if you want to find it.)

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

nope.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes, actually! a few of my old hp fics were translated into spanish or chinese.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i wrote a round-robin fic with the campal server once. i also started co-writing a fic with quinn a while ago (before we both got busy with school) that i’d like to return to at some point, because the concept still makes me vibrate with glee.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

i’m not sure that i have one, actually? i’m a multishipper to my core.

15. What's one WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i have so many WIPs in my google docs that i’ll probably never finish.

i’d like to revisit my fic about necromancers & dysautonomia some day, but my writing style has changed so much since then. i might have to rewrite what i’ve posted.

16. What are your writing strengths?

i’m frequently complimented on my worldbuilding. i’m good at examining the implications of things that other people might not think about, so my plots are original even when i’m writing a fandom trope. (i can’t wait to post my harrow nova AU for this exact reason.)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

sigh. pacing. i write from very close POVs, but sometimes i get too far into the character’s head, and it drags the story down. i’m trying to write sharper prose, but i’m going through an awkward growth phase as a writer—i know the structure i want, but it’s a struggle to get there concisely.

also, i over-edit instead of writing new words, which does me no favors.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

i guess it depends on context? i have a pretty good grasp on code-switching from being bilingual but not quite fluent, but the memory of that one klance fic haunts me.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

i mentioned my first published fic earlier, but the first fic i wrote was a percy jackson self-insert fic when i was twelve.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

indelible! cam and pal figure out that dulcinea isn’t who she says she is at the fifth’s anniversary party, but it doesn’t change anything. <3

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tagging @harrowharkwife @friendamedes @cindthia @logicbutton @thewinterstale @sluggydrabbles & anyone else who wants to participate!

[happywastedyears]

nine people you'd like to know better

tagged by @nepenthean-sleep !

(i'll be rbing this to my tlt sideblog bc i literally never post original stuff on here lol)

last song: it was love that laid us low by dry the river. everyone go listen to that album immediately.

favorite color: blue, especially greyish blues and really deep blues

currently watching: trying to limp through the last season of house lol

sweet/savory/spicy: well for most of my life it would've been sweet > savory > spicy but i woke up one day last year preferring savory to sweet. no idea why lol

relationship status: so fucking single

current obsession: to be honest i've really been in another all for the game era lol. and obviously tlt and homestuck

last thing you googled: where the ups store i was going to was. v boring lol

tagging: @felinaetrash @theriverbeyond @arithmonym @eskildit @liesmyth @nose-coffee @carys-the-ninth @gideonisms @trickstercheshi

[eskildit]

ill genuinely start crying if i think too much about how nona could speak every language. how she could speak to all the littles in a language they recognized. how she said people were nicer when you spoke the same language as them - how it made them think you were from where they were from, had gone through what they had gone through. people of "new rho" i think about you always

[eskildit]

a detail that i feel should be obvious but is often overlooked about BOE is that its not just that they splintered due to ideological differences after wake died. john explicitly points out the cohorts widespread assault on BOE:

They upped their game about twenty-five years before you were born. They’d gotten a demagogue, a charismatic leader who wasn’t content to work behind the scenes. Hotspots flared up, but we took them down ... cell by cell, bone by bone.

the empire dismantled BOE. they were a threat to the empire for the first time under wakes command and they could not be allowed to survive. i feel its important to note that the BOE we see in ntn isn't fractured just because they couldn't pick up the mantle after wake died but because they were systemically hunted down and nearly wiped out by the empire. cell by cell, bone by bone.

[eskildit]

we suffer being a divorcee is endlessly funny to me. i choose to believe the divorce was because of we suffers dedication to the cause and also that she was always a little bit in love with wake.

[eskildit]

dulcinea septimus has done more for griddlehark than anyone out here and no one can tell me otherwise

[eskildit]

2k25 it’s time to save Judith deuteros from being portrayed as a top. Let her get strapped!!!!!

[liesmyth]

something something cytherea catfishing as dulcinea on onlyfans

OK LISTEN. THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION IS CYTH CATFISHING GIDEON. BUT ALSO WHAT IF SHE CATFISHES PALAMEDES

[liesmyth]

“wonder who pals dad is fucking” if given the opportunity, also pyrrha. he’s not a member of the oversight body so he’s being left out of all the new rho debacles but if given the chance absolutely her. Alternate answer: cams dads.

PAL'S DAD IS IN A THROUPLE WITH CAMILLA'S DADS. YES. THIS IS CANON TO ME

[liesmyth]

ur so right about nonas pov being limited so we probably dont truly know what pyrrha + the sixth got up to because upon reread im like pretty sure camilla murdered their neighbor

I'm in the middle of a Nona reread and I got THE SAME VIBE, but also "the building" is a BoE safehouse so maybe she would've gotten in trouble for it? I choose to believe that she did though. And I'm always wondering what Pyrrha was up to those 6 months

[liesmyth]

re: your tags on the abigail fanart, who do you think abigail pent is fucking in the river

CASSIOPEIA. If she isn't in the River, then Dulcie. I also think she and Wake would be fun together

[liesmyth]

wait also is this a good time to bring palamedes/mercy back to the stage

she should vivisection him but sexually

[liesmyth]

okay im glad someone brought it up because abigail/magnus/palamedes is everything to me. i wanna see that twink just absolutely crumpled by those two

Palamedes THINKS they invited him over for nerdy academic discussion but actually it was a spirit orgy with a couple of swingers

[liesmyth]

I’m sending this as a new ask because suddenly I’m thinking about wake and ianthe interacting. I think wake would hate ianthe so much but I hate to say it I think ianthe would be deeply horny about wake. ianthe gets off on dysfunction and you just know she has mommy issues.

Wake would HATE HER and Ianthe would be TURNED ON. She possibly wouldn't hate her as much as she hates Harrow but there's super juicy potential for Wake-in-Cyth's-body hatefucking Ianthe <3