#pongnosis

[butahumbleguest]

I'm finally reading The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, y'all I get it now. This really is the Alex Rider fic

[alexhatessupermarketcola]

I forgot that James Sprintz's family, at least in the show, deals in weapons. Could be an interesting point of contact if Alex ever found himself on the run and in need of supplies, seems a very Scorpia!Alex related situation but I'm sure there could be other reasons too... Also I love James' (and Laura's) characters in the show and it would be cool for Alex to use them as a support network

[makimacult]

reading bits of ddbs again as you do and the different times alex tells yassen he hates him just. utterly leave me undone.

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[bat-losers-inc]

Any fans of the epic Alex Rider fanfic masterpiece that is "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Pongnosis here? 👀 Because I'm attempting to join the ranks of the many fanfic authors writing in the Devilverse with an AU set after Yassen gets promoted to the SCORPIA board.

Now if I could only finish outlining said fic so I could actually start writing it, THAT would be awesome!

[vaschenko-chao]

Alex Rider tag game

Thank you so much @hightensileyoyo for the tag! :3

favourite book: I can't make up my mind between Scorpia, Snakehead, and Scorpia Rising 😬

favourite short story: Alex in Afghanistan

books or TV series: books (but I have a lot of love for the TV series!)

favorite character: Alex

favorite villain: primary villain: Julia Rothman; secondary villain: Julius Grief

Tags (no pressure): @sojourner-between-worlds, @trueishcolours, @dreamsmthgold, @emziess, @pongnosis, @konathankent, @marvelfanfn2187a113, if you haven't already, and anyone else who wants to!

[pongnosis]

I was just wondering, how did you come up with the name pongnosis? I've tried looking up if it's a word, cause it sounds like it could be, but I haven't found anything

It's a good username! (and usernames are hard)

Thank you! It's part nostalgia and part pun. I have fond memories of the game Pong as a kid so I played around with different variations until I hit something I liked that wasn't taken. It also goes with a previous username of mine to make a 'beer pong' joke (holdmybeer + pongnosis), and I'll never turn down the opportunity to make an awful pun.

[bakedbeansandbruhmoments]

Finished binging all of AR s3 about an hour ago and I can’t put into words how absolutely crazy amazing that was to watch

Lowkey I love a lot of the ways ahorz covered for canon changes, esp. Alex and Jones at the end of ep 6 😭😭

My Kyrex heart is bursting with joy <33

I need someone to make a gif of Tom trying to peek through the peephole immediately, I laughed so fucking hard at that

we should see about @pongnosis getting royalties from ep 4 because that was some shit straight from DDBS I swear, amazing to see on screen

[sunlitlemonade]

the absolute goldmine of an au that @pongnosis and i keep blabbering abt in our dms but never write......

[freesirius4life]

Here is an animation I made of the first chapter of The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by @pongnosis !

[artistfingers]

What was the biggest inspo for things that bleed?

Oh, anon. I am so glad you asked.

Hands down, our first and biggest inspiration was the fic series Of Madness and Mammals by Brairwitched. Specifically, we cite the fic Dysthymia in the first chapter of Things That Bleed.

Mammals is the very fic series I'd landed on after my AR novel reread—back when it was still updating, mind you!���and I was pretty much losing my mind just rattling the bars of my cage all alone. It was very, very much Mammals that gave me the setting and framework for my initial TTB proposal: that Alex, while on the run with Yassen someplace through the US, should run into SCP!Danny.

So I inflicted it upon Kei and Kkachi. They actually both read Mammals before any canon AR content, so a lot of our early TTB brainstorming referenced Mammals before we overhauled it and took a closer look at the books themselves, as well as the Alex Rider show. (...and then decided we have selective hearing and did our own thing HJKAGSD)

I asked Kei and Kkachi if they wanted to pitch in on answering this ask, so here's a little more from them!

@dp-belongs-in-a-hoodie said:

This fic was also inspired by Shadow of a Doubt! The whole "Danny on the run from a dark and traumatic past, helped out by unlikely strangers" is a genre that I honestly can't get enough of. The secrets!!!! A boy clearly haunted and rough around the edges but still gentle and kind. What's not to love??

We were also "inspired" I guess you could say, by my own fic Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton! At least in the sense that we used many of my hcs that I established for it! It gave us a really good jumping off point for pushing Danny even further into the the horror territory needed for a fic like this that crosses over into the SCP!verse.

@kkachis said:

devil and the deep blue sea inspired some of the more granular and darker elements in the alex rider part of TTB! some parts and characters of TTB are heavily influenced by the tone, manipulative strategies, and political machinations that you can observe in DatDBS. we won't claim to be as good as pongnosis at manipulating those threads, nor will an endgame like DatDBS be our end goal, but as the story develops and as we uncover more of alex's past, you'll be able to see more of its influence seeping through.

Thank you for reading and asking, anon! (o゜▽゜)o☆

for anyone who's curious, you can find TTB over on Ao3 and @thingsthatbleedfic 🖤

[eirianerisdar]

Hmm, S and V?

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Hiding Injury my beloved Case in point, some (woefully simplified) summaries of my last few longfics: The Ransom of the House of Fëanor - Elrond hides the slow seeping exhaustion of his fëa kneeling at the foot of Máhanaxar to petition for the release of his fathers from the Void. Where the Blade Cuts the Deepest - Kotallo hides his physical and emotional hurt when he mistakenly thinks Aloy has handed him a dishonourable discharge from her command and nearly dies in the process. Half Alive - Spider hides his injuries from Jake and everyone else after the last battle in The Way of Water because he's terrified of being abandoned again. Icarus - Daniel hides his trimmed wings and later his increasingly worsening health from Max and everyone he loves in order to throw himself into proving he deserves to keep his seat.

...😅 I just do the same thing in different ways lol

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose? Probably Pongnosis' The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. It remains the single best fanfic I've ever read in my life. (If there are any people who remember reading the Alex Rider books in their childhood, this is the fic for you)

Send me a fanfic ask!

[butahumbleguest]

this fic has me in a chokehold I swear

(alternate under the cut)

[alexhatessupermarketcola]

I just finished the devil and the deep blue sea for the third time and enjoyed every second.

....what do I do with myself now 😱😂

[rirren]

Last line meme

Thanks to @icebluecyanide for tagging me!

This is from a gen Alex & Yassen fic I've been working on for almost a year. Hoping to get it out soon!

Maybe both stories were true. Maybe Yassen had never known. It didn't change things.

Tagging @strangesoulmates and @pongnosis if they wanna take part! ^^

[waterandsilver]

Hi! I am so curious now - is that "Devil in the Deep Blue Sea" by Pongnosis over on AO3? Because that's where my mind went, and if so, I just want to say that you have EXCELLENT taste

It SURE IS! Love that fic. It's such a treasure trove for rereading.

(@pongnosis not sure if you're around here much at the minute, but passing on some appreciation for when you are!)

[even-a-hero-needs-some-hope]

@sing-the-beginning-of-moana READ THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA. READ IT. BEST LONGFIC I'VE EVER READ. SO GOOD. READ IT.

It's really long, but definitely worth the read. It's set a standard for all Alex Rider fics after it. There are 84 fanfics set in its universe, which should tell you something about how much of a masterpiece it is.

📚 Select Alex Rider fanwork lengths illustrated 📚