#huntlow selkieau

[apiculturegal]

“And for you, I’d walk through fire.”

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part 9. endgame selkieau stuff that i couldn’t get out of my head so the rest of you are burdened with it now.

[apiculturegal]

I’ve been trying to find words to describe how freeing it’s been to write Shallow Waters and experiment with writing in general. My philosophy has changed a bunch of times since I started in May but here are my (general) notes and thoughts so far.

One of the things I’m most proud of in the fic so far is the atmosphere. Hunter is such a great protagonist to frame it through because he is so incredibly polarized inside—he takes in all of the raw scenery around him, these rugged landscapes and beaches and forests, and frames them within his internal gauge of dangerous and not dangerous. The ocean will always be wild and dark, the forests cold, the town run-down. The things he likes and enjoys will always seem warm to him, like the kitchen or Willow’s house.

To continue that vein, I’ve tried to hold off from directly saying Hunter hates or loves certain things, because I feel like the point can be better made with how he chooses to describe objects, even if he isn’t strictly the narrator.

Secondly, I’ve also tried to convey just how lonely Hunter is feeling at the story’s start. Any scene in which he is alone is automatically going to be slightly more cynical and atmospherically dark than when someone is with him (unless, of course, that person is his uncle—but Phillip is always framed by dim light, so his scenes feel so much more sinister to me).

To increase the feeling of something fantastical (and this will be clearer in later chapters), the tangible and the intangible are starting to become mixed the further Hunter is “mixed up” with faeries. Willow’s greenhouse, for example, being impossibly large inside, is just one of many ways the universe’s bounds are pushed by faery magic.

These last three chapters have been so so fun to write and as I continue to work on chapter four I’ll have more comments to make and things to share!

[apiculturegal]

gender TRANSED (pt. 15 of selkie au stuff)

i just wanted to draw these two dancing. they are my daughters and i love them so much

[apiculturegal]

part 17 of selkie!au stuff: sketches and possible chapter covers

sorry i’ve been absent lately!! here’s some stuff i’ve been working on

[apiculturegal]

Shallow Waters—Chapter Three: The Birds

Read it here!

i’m a week late with the chapter cover, sorry. finals and work has been CRAZY. cannot wait for winter break though it’s gonna be great

[apiculturegal]

sketching selkie au stuff

[apiculturegal]

Shallow Waters, Chapter One

I've finally finished writing and editing the first chapter of the selkie!au fic, Shallow Waters. This is my first fic in the TOH fandom so I don't really know what to expect, but I'm so excited to share it with everyone!