#postcanon worldbuilding

[leletha-jann]

Headcanon unrelated to current comic events (everyone has Dreen theories right now)

In the future, it becomes known that Agatha Heterodyne's Spark was, for the first part of her life, suppressed by a wearable Mechanism. We know that fact is in university textbooks, after all... And because Sparks Are Just Like That, people try to replicate it.

This is, to say the least, not a good idea. No one else is Barry Heterodyne. Most of the Sparks who try cause serious damage to the potentially Sparky children they try their devices on. You'd think people would get a clue, but...Sparks. Sparks think "oh, but that inferior hack who barely deserves to be my rival did it wrong, obviously, I can do better!"

It is one of the things that, in the post-canon, Triumvirate-ruled Wulfenbach Empire, gets you shot on sight.

(Outside the Empire, it gets you wrapped up in the local equivalent of a high-security bow and sold to the Empire to be shot on sight. Both Gil and Tarvek have been known to undersell valuable trade/security treaties because they really want to shoot that guy. It's a known if minor weakness in their diplomatic prowess, which their neighbors are happy to exploit when possible.)

(And it's still considered the merciful option, because if they don't shoot the guy, Agatha is going to get her hands on him.)

The Triumvirate takes such things personally. They have kids by this point. There was never any doubt that the kids would break through, but boy, were the three of them really paranoid about locket-type mechanisms for a while.

Triumvirate kids get warned about accepting jewelry from people with the fervency of razor-blades-in-Halloween-candy scares. Each of them has a secret pattern of imperfections on all their sigil pins and other wearable things, that only they know, so that no accessory they ever own is replaced or altered without their knowledge.

No more Spark-suppressing, brain-strangling mechanisms. Ever.

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tea anon i fucking invented to-go cups in this setting for you. NEVER SAY I DIDN'T TRY

[leletha-jann]

Aw YES, I wondered if anyone else had the chimera kids headcanon.

Yes! This is one of my pet headcanons. This is not a silly thought, this is a great thought (says someone who's been thinking about it. A lot.)

Everyone's happy. SCIENCE has been done. The resulting children of a bonded triple have three biological parents. No further questions. No one's a half-sibling to be set against the others. (We have the Valois dynasty right here for comparison for when a bloodline gets divided. No thank you, Tarvek's not going back to that.) All children have equal inheritance rights (all of it).

And since there's definitely SCIENCE happening, it lets them plan for when (and how often) they're going to do this, instead of the randomness of biology or more planning of their sex lives than probably anyone is comfortable with.

Agatha doesn't have to put up with people asking her "so who's the father?" 9000 times a day. (In fact, probably at the same time she announces the first pregnancy, Agatha has Van ask what she'll henceforth call "the stupid question", answers "Both of them," very calmly...and she's holding a death ray. Hint taken. No one asks the stupid question again. Well, not twice again, anyway. Agatha's totally capable of building "I'm mad at you but I want you to survive to learn from it" ray guns too.)

Gil fields one (1) snarly comment from Klaus about "how can you even be sure that's your child" with "I have the lab notes. :D" and that's the end of that.

The wrath of absolute god comes down - from three directions, and that's before the Jagermonsters get involved - on any Valois cousins who think they should have access to these kids. Hell no.

"Chimera" actually does become the preferred term of art for the kids. They're made, but they're not constructs.

Not quite designer kids, but you look at them and you can see all three bloodlines in there. Like, you're going to get some kind of amazing red-gold hair color out of Agatha and Tarvek, but you can see Wulfenbach bone structure in the kid's face. They're Heterodynes until one of them wants to inherit something from one of their fathers, and if one of them particularly wants the Empire, someday in the future, it doesn't matter who their father was, because both.

Man, I've got more headcanons about this, including at least a couple of names. I'm just reeling from the knowledge that someone else has thought about it too.

...ask me about the bonus chimera kid headcanon that involves the timestopper, which is essentially fanfic by that point. Go on. Ask. Dare you.

I had a silly thought.

One day in the future, once everything has settled and been dealt with (or as settled and dealt with as it ever could be in Europa), Agatha will likely have children to continue the Heterodyne line.

But in order to ensure a sense of balance and equality between her paramours, she uses SCIENCE! to influence the child's genetics, so that it's a mix of hers, Gil's and Tarvek's, possibly in a distinct form of Chimerism or just some weird mix.

And then my thoughts got derailed on what the 'appropriate' mix of genetics would be - should it be equal? Should Agatha's take precedence and be a full 50% and the remainder split between Tarvek and Gil?

Also did any other Heterodynes ever do weird shit like that to their kids? It doesn't seem like it.

[openphrase123]

i just finished this fic! it's good!

and because it's all done i want to like... be a LITTLE self indulgent and talk under the cut about some miscellaneous things that i ran into while writing it. don't click the readmore if you're interested in the fic and haven't read it yet i'm about to spoil the Whole thing.

also there is an epilogue to this fic now - go read that before this post if you're getting to this before the update!!

so!! i haven't written fanfiction in like FIVE YEARS. it's been a while! part of that is because i was doing original stuff and part of it was i was in a creative slump. so isat kind of dug me out of that and i owe it my thanks. i've been able to do a crazy amount of original work since starting this fic, it's brought back my creative discipline. in like seven years when my video game comes out you can thank isat for that probably

i originally set out thinking this was the only fic for isat i was going to write. and then as i was writing this i fell deeper into it. i kind of got out of isat a little disappointed in how it ended?? but now that i'm here i'm like ah it's fine. just cause i would have done something different in dev's position doesn't mean it's bad. it does mean i can write a bunch of fanfiction exploring things i wish had been tackled more in the game though LOL

i said this in one of the chapter authors notes but i DID start out curtain call hating loop with every fiber of my being. (as in i liked them as a character UNTIL the act 6 reveal which i thought was lame) and then i played through the game a second time knowing the loop twist and went "oh nvm this makes sense" so a lot of the loop stuff in this fic was actually written twice. originally i was just gonna have them soulmerge with siffrin and not be present at all but then i was like. no. i do want to keep this lighthearted and that's too depressing of an end for loop. i do have a loop postcanon doc so i'll go repay them for their slapdashed involvement in curtain call someday

i'm in a weird position with curtain call in that i wrote the themes and major conflicts Directly After playing through isat the first time. before i could really marinate and analyze the characters fully. so there are a lot of scenes and points where i think i wouldn't characterize certain people like that if i were to rewrite this from scratch? however i don't disagree with what i've written either - it's just an interpretation that i don't necessarily think is my favorite anymore.

neither is any of the worldbuilding i did for any of this - it works for curtain call and i think it was nice but i don't necessarily think it's my current interpretation of what the culture and people were like? i like the wishes being permanent thing, i like the language stuff, but i'd probably go in a different direction if i went through this again

i do actually still think "the forgotten island was destroyed by a volcano" is my solid headcanon explanation of what happened to it. in my heart. i think like - with siffrin as a character especially it's very important that he's always missing something, that it's not idyllically happy for them at the end of everything. so even if he can remember more from their own past, it's - you know - there's no way to go back. only forward.

in the vein of this i probably could have killed siffrin/loop's entire childhood family but i did not. mostly because i did think it was fun for him to have to explain all of those cultural taboos they broke to survive. which, of course, was not a big deal - any good parent would rather their kid be alive than lawful - but what is isat other than a vehicle to make siffrin work through every moral compulsion and spiral they experience

i had a thought halfway through writing the fic that i was stepping on the very good and beautiful odile friendquest by making the island real and having a lot of siffrin's personality dictate how it went. but i ultimately decided on keeping siffrin very close to their country, more than odile is to vaugarde, because siffrin actually DID live on the island when he was a kid and that i think is a Different type of "longing for your country" trauma than odile's. i think they can still drink over the feelings together though

writing bonnie is very fun but very emotional for me. the bonnie&siffrin age gap (preteen to late-20s) is the exact age gap between me and my niece so every time i need to sit down and write something for them i think about her and how much she's a little baby growing up. this has nothing to do with bonnie it just makes writing bonnie really hard for me

if the entire history of my ao3 account was not an indicator, i'm a very big fan of writing romance, but i did not want it to take over curtain call at all. i also could have left out sloopis entirely and almost did, but thought "you know. with the way loop functions in this fic. i should at least let that be open ended" cause sharing a body with a version of you who is dating some other guy is gonna get messy no matter what. it's just not necessarily something i had time to or the urge to explore here. think of it as a fun spiritual nod to the fact that isafrin is technically open ended in isat (<- cop out answer)

i think i'm pretty vocal in how much i am absolutely insane for the flashback "happiest i can remember being" conversation. who let them do that. i think a lot of how i worked with mirabelle and siffrin's relationship in this fic kind of revolved around that. important to me that it ends with mira checking in on him and getting the answer she was looking for all along <3

overall i'm happy with curtain call. glad i am done with it though. there's so much that's running in with it at once. i'll probably wait a month and reread the whole thing to myself front to back before i start having fond memories of this. i mean it's always gonna be the fic my nephew was born during and i'll always remember having a panic attack in the airport right after posting chapter 7 but it's gonna be weird letting this one sail off into the ocean of the internet. however feel free to ask anything about the fic, i wrote this in a lil hurry on a bad day and probably didn't cover everything

goodbye, curtain call!! i love you!!!!! i'll miss you!!!!

[looks both ways, waiting for most people to leave]

also. if you've read this far. i hope it's not too gauche of me to link my personal project. if you've read over 100k words of this you might enjoy the game i'm developing? i've been working on it for almost a year but i just started the devlog last month. it's still in early baby stages as far as a full video game goes but if you liked this you'll like the game when it comes out (similar nickname culture, timeloop trauma, petty interpersonal drama, very stupid jokes, natural disaster angst)

also there isn't a lot on the devblog yet, i've mostly been doing programming on it, i JUST started visdev i'm sorry if it's uglyyyyy (FOR NOW)

anyway i'm trusting you with that link. i'm going to use my professional name on that project when it airs don't cross the wires pretty please just pretend that's a butch-y cis woman's game <3 guard the closet door babeyyyyy

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i wanna rave and ramble about my m3 postcanon worldbuilding but choosing where to begin is a herculean task all its own.

[little-smartass]

I was tagged by @justawanderingbabbit to self rec five fics that I've written!

All In (kirk/spock, 87k)

this fic is always going to be a special one for me - it was my first time collaborating with other authors ( @spicyshimmy-blog and @summerofspock), it was one I came back to after several years of it being abandoned, and at the time it was the longest thing I'd ever written. still super super proud of it!

2. The Slow Path (book!louis/lestat, 14k)

another oldie that I'm still very proud of - I spent a lot of time character analysing to try and get to the core of who these two would be without vampire trauma and immortality, and I'm pleased with how it turned out in the end. I definitely still comfort re-read it every now and then.

3. Where There’s A Will, There’s A Road (3zun, 37k)

This was the first mystery/casefic I ever wrote, the first time I think I ever put real work and effort into creating tension and plot suspense, and I am still so super happy with how it turned out! also some of my favourite fight scenes I've ever written. an incredible podfic was recorded for it and I have lost track of how many times I've listened to it on long journeys.

4. Where There Are Green Hills, There Will Be Wood To Burn series (317k, 3zun + xuanli + sangcheng)

this was a two + year labour of love by myself and @maura-labingi full of extensive research and worldbuilding and character exploration and I absolutely adore the result of it all, it was so worth it! will always be beloved to me.

5. The Waves Are Rising And Rising (131k, 3zun)

I think @eleanorfenyxwrites and I wrote this fic in something utterly bonkers like 3 or 4 months, it just completely took over our brains and I have had SUCH an incredibly fun time working on it, I love this AU so much!!

(honourable mentions to Best of My Love, the ace!Meng Yao fic that I sort of consulted on with @justkeeptrekkin, and Safety of Distance, another long term project about postcanon!3zun that was a really tough one that was well worth the work)

tagging @eleanorfenyxwrites @guqin-and-flute @maura-labingi if you fancy it

[problemstarchild]

The one and only thing about Dungeon Meshi that makes it insane for me trying to write for it is, like...

There's so much worldbuilding. There's so much world, so many locations -- you have northern and southern elves, dwarves have a firm heirarchy and an outcasting system, orcs have multiple marriages and pseudohorn growth to signify status, elven beauty standards, half-foot naming conventions and folklore, gnomish traditional dress...

We literally have so much. There are so many things that enrich the world in a way that I rarely get to sink my teeth into.

But dear god. Where is everything. Where???

There's Melini (postcanon), Utaya (RIP), Izganda, Dozahk, and Kahka Brud. These are the only named location entities, aside from the various other dungeons, which mostly seem to be supplementary.

What is the name of Laois and Falin's village? What is the name of the islands where the elves live? If there are so few continents that people basically just call them "West, North, South, East, Northeast" then does the Eastern archipelago at least have named islands?

There are no PLACE NAMES and for political writing involving anything other than dwarves, it's been driving me crazy. There's a panel where Kabru is just listing the names of important cities--

--but since I don't know the naming conventions for cities, because we only know of TWO tallman locations (Utaya and Melini) and three dwarven ones (Kahka Brud, Izganda, Dozahk), and because of that, I have no idea how to determine which of these cities are elven, which are dwarven (almost all of them sound like dwarf cities to me based on the other options, Brigan is the name of a dwarf character so I'd probably guess that's also the name of a city).

Sadena Dozal?

A place called Godhome (if that's what it's supposed to say) sounds very literal and spiritual so maybe gnomish (gnomes are culturally in touch with spirits and the only person who's actually religious in the entire story that I can recall is Holm, who is also a gnome), but who the hell knows.

We only know dwarf city names because it's part of their names. Which is frustrating. I wanna know the conventions...

[wrenaspun]

HELLO user wrenaspun big time fan here 🥺 for the dvd commentary game i'd like to hear your thoughts on this awesome bit from your legendary role playing fic!

“Were you sleeping?” asked Laurent, and the corners of his eyes creased sweetly, so that Damen could see the smile even when his mouth was covered. “I don’t think so,” said Damen. “Dozing, maybe.” “Jord told me about the men from Arras,” said Laurent, coming nearer. Damen felt the familiar warm glow of his attention, his approval. “They told him they had never seen a fighter like you.” “No?” “Jord thinks half of them want to fuck you and the other half want to be you,” said Laurent. “In any case none of them want to meet you as an enemy.”

much love in advance!! 💞

Thank you!!! and much love back to you for indulging me 💞

This one is an interesting pick!! It feels like a relatively less dramatic and more quiet moment in the context of the fic, but i feel like all the chapters needed that as a sort of grounding force before you get into the actual roleplaying bits… I think I said to a few commenters that it felt important for the roleplaying not to be a needed escape from their day-to-day lives but more of a delightful and fun little treat, so that sense of the happy mundane is what I was going for. Laurent and Damen knowing each other and being comfortable in their lives! Damen noticing the corners of Laurent's eyes moving and just knowing that he's smiling under the mask -- 'could see the smile even when his mouth was covered' -- was a fave moment for me, because I felt it really built that mood of casual intimacy, the idea that Laurent has smiled enough (and widely enough!) that Damen is now accustomed to it and knows the way the rest of his face looks while he does it. Same with putting 'familiar' in before 'warm glow' (which is a gentle callback to canon where Damen is constantly equating Laurent's Gaze to a physical touch) -- Laurent's attention and approval is now common enough that Damen is well acquainted with it!

Also, I was making a concerted effort in this fic to have postcanon worldbuilding creep in around the edges of the sexy stuff -- think Damen remembering their reunion in ch2 and their proposal in ch3 -- so this functioned as another little nod to the ongoing unification, the idea that the Akielon king was training Veretian soldiers in his free time (and impressing them wildly with his martial abilities, as is his wont....)

ALSO also, it was definitely you that said in your comment that Laurent would have been hunting down the names of the soldiers who wanted to fuck Damen, and you're 100% right. If Damen's not careful he's going to be entrapped into starting something in the training room just so that these soldiers can walk in on them, because Laurent is insane like that :')))

(dvd commentary meme)

[roguetelepaths]

sparrow roguetelepaths — ey/em or they/them - read my DS9 postcanon fic where Odo adopts a Vorta daughter

used to be enbygesserit, follows from helplessnessxblues

old enough to remember when neopets breakfast cereal was a thing

aroace to a terrifying degree. not the cool kind that writes smut and passes out water bottles at the orgy, either. sorry

intersex (nCAH) (diagnosed professionally at 15) and currently working through medical trauma and neglect related to that

no gender we die like [tv static]

psychospiritually nonhuman, but I don't talk about it here — DM me if you want to know where I do

vaguely anarchist & emphatically against all forms of punishment as foundations for interpersonal relationships

on bluesky! @justiceforlyta.bsky.social

I also have a more serious™ blog off of tumblr, you can find it here

psychiatric survivor and ex-patient. madpunk, psychpunk, neurodivergent in the original radical anti-pathologization meaning of the term. the social model isn't ableist you guys are just willfully misinterpreting it

on team "believe others about their subjective experiences". yes, this includes that subjective experience you're about to send me anon hate telling me is absolutely just kids roleplaying for attention. wishing medicalists of all kinds a very merry go fuck yourselves. yes this includes sysmeds, what part of believe others about their subjective experiences don't you understand

my stance on proship/anti discourse can be summed up as "fiction may not literally be reality but it also can't be separated from the context of reality and it's good to foster an environment where that context can be openly talked about" and "freedom of fiction doesn't really exist without freedom of response" and "dislike and disgust are not indicators of morality but they also shouldn't be ignored or repressed, especially since they can teach you useful things about yourself" and "criticize ideas and works, not people" — some people call this neutralship but I've been known to describe myself as a pro-disliker or a pro-critic. that being said if I see you shipping weyoun and odo in a romantic/sexual way I will block you so hard and fast that your ancestors will feel it. same goes with snowbaird. I am a tolerant person but I do not want those things in my space

other important stances: occupied peoples have the right to armed resistance. the pandemic never ended, we just all stopped talking about it.

update to unreality tag policy: I will be tagging things that usually get tagged as unreality as #surrealism going forward. this is a compromise to respect both my personal belief in the multilayered nature of reality and the needs of vulnerable people to be protected from content that doesn't align with shared reality. please block #surrealism if you have #unreality blocked.

fandoms you can expect to see (I care about themes and analysis over shipping, and when I do ship, it's always an extension of the themes I want to explore, so be prepared for me to be a pretentious piece of shit about all of these):

DS9 (especially the Dominion) (I have a discord server for this)

Babylon 5 (mostly telepaths but not exclusively. NOT a psi corps apologist in any way, just a season 5 telepath commune arc liker, which is almost as bad to some)

Dune

Severance

The Hunger Games & related media

Cult of the Lamb

non-media interests (may or may not post about these, honestly, it's anyone's guess, but feel free to tag me in these):

fucked up unethical pseudoscientific social experiments, the more fucked up unethical and pseudoscientific the better

relationship anarchy

aroace, trans, and intersex issues

disability rights, psychiatry criticism, and cognitive liberty

community building

apartment solarpunk

Scouting and related youth organizations

worldbuilding and writing advice

Heathenry and Norse mythology (though that's more likely to go on @heathen-starspawn)

[hikennosabo]

homestuck is kind of weird to talk about nowadays... honestly i'm kind of tired of cringing at it, but also i just can't really fully kill the part that cringes, either.

it has its major major issues with racism, ableism, other -isms that i'm probably forgetting, the irony poisoning and hussie's mean-spirited sense of humor, the absolute mess of postcanon which i will never touch in my life, the entire kickstarter fiasco, the HATRED for the fandom on the part of some of the creators including hussie themself... it's very messy. and that's not even touching the fandom.

at the same time it is still an impressive and (new)groundbreaking work in terms of presentation and storytelling and worldbuilding and i don't appreciate that enough. the fandom was also very influential on my art at the time, although i don't think any of that is reflected in my art style now, lol.

looking at what i said about homestuck after my interest in it faded but before the comic ended, i was just very... melancholy, i guess, about how my passion for it disappeared, and it never came back. and that's kind of a bummer? like, we can't relive the golden age, you had to be there at that time, and if i tried to go back it just... wouldn't be the same. you'd think at this point it'd've been long enough that i could look back at it fondly, but i still can't fully do that yet.

i dunno man. i'm just tired of cringing.

[llycaons]

I have been reminded I have yet to do this - recs from my readings last week

small mercies by mellowflicker

wwx stays postcanon and takes care of lwj during his tenure as cc. the intimacy is mostly unspoken but nice and very physical. no big get-togethers or confessions are needed, because they simply know. the sex scenes are rough and a little undernegotiated but honestly really well done. a nice read overall I liked it

underneath a starless sky, the wind blows towards the future by ilip13

a dystopian modern urban fantasy take on the yiling laozu. lwj approaches wwx-as-yllz for aid as the gusu lan sect needs more and more help in fending off the tide of resentful energy. matters in the city progress, their relationship develops, and things come to a head. a bit corny, and a significant decision lwj makes at the end is quite ooc and thematically inappropriate, but I enjoyed the worldbuilding and the drama in the relationship development. a solid B+ *note that this author has written rape fantasy and cnc so be safe*

Forget Me Not by Vamillepudding

not a new fic, this was published ages ago. almost purely comedic, this one, which is good because amnesia when played for angst either stresses me out or annoys me. postcanon wwx and lwj lose their memories from different parts of their lives and are told by other characters they've gotten married when in fact they haven't actualy gotten together yet. but it's completely okay. some other characters have to babysit them and it's kind of charming to see how they interact also. when I first read this many months ago I thought it wasn't worth reccing but I've come around on it. it's sweet, they make out a lot. and pretty funny too

[alien-enjoyer]

this is the second half of the design page i made the first half is kinda. not bad but the original design looked a lot like Time for some reason? so. yeah.

this character is Yatir from a botw post canon ghostfic called ‘A Hero’s Spirit’ by (im nervous to tag but. yeah. yeah i will actually) @silvermistanimelover . i have no idea how accurate the design is because i didnt go back and reread the 150k word fic for the, like, 5th time just for that, when i do get around to that 5th reread (probably when i get brainrot between updates AGAIN <- this is a very common occurrence) i will probably redesign him again. yes i could’ve posted this in the linked universe server but i havent said ANYTHING there in literally over a year so i didn’t, and i’m way more confident here anyway . read the fic even if youre not into linked universe!! the first book is just botw postcanon with a few hints here and there? but yeah it’s insane some of the best worldbuilding ive seen and yatir is The Character Ever, actually. i’m working my way through all of silvermist’s fics because from the research i did do i discovered yatir shows up in a bunch of her fics and i am always up for new yatir content. :D

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at the risk of giving away the entirety of ch10. behold this outline

note: "birds" in this case are human men, they're courtesans

(logs in via my phone) I AM A SICK MAN A SICK SICK MAN (<- writing a mildly romantic scene)

[dragondawdles]

uhh I know your current interests thingy says "man idk" but do u possibly have any bug fables headcanons ??

hihi I do indeed! I’ll stick my thoughts beneath a readmore for ease of skippability and also for spoilers:

leif ≠ leif. like is’s less “leif was resurrected and came back complicatedly different” and more “leif super dies in snakemouth and leif as we know him is the cordyceps”. I mean they aren’t as mutually exclusive as I may be presenting them as but idk! I like leaning into how weird leif’s whole deal is. let him wrestle with legacy let him wrestle with his borrowed yet vividly personal memories and feelings let him grieve leif and muse and elizant I and continue to live. let him be a weird not-quite moth

a bit along the same lines, leif having health issues as consequence of leif stuff. wounds that don’t quite heal right (thinking his injury in ch4 is a big one), some form of vision impairment, and poor dexterity are the main ones I’ve got in mind and that last one is maybe a little bit of projection as a treat

leif being a fantastic actor is already canon but I would like to extend that off stage. I think he’a scarily good at putting on fronts acting however he would like to present himself. I think his facades even fool himself sometimes

vi being raised as a potential successor to the queen when she was young before getting a bit older and being moved to the honey factory and ultimately striking out on her own is maybe not canon compliant but I think it’s potentially very interesting and funny. could’ve been a princess but she chose violence.

vi being wholly able to fly the entire game but not even bothering to until the end when she is directly ordered to do so by the queen is so funny I don’t think there’s some deep rooted psychological reason for that I think she’s just like that. maybe one day down the line she’ll appreciate the oddly elusive gift of flight for what it is but as of now she just walks everywhere since bugaria’s built to be accessible to flightless bugs so why not y’know! she just likes to walk! maybe she has really good lower body strength for a bee as consequence

kabbu’s a theatre enjoyer! he can be too enthusiastic sometimes (he’s not always great at volume control) and he’s seen enough plays that he knows what makes a play good and bad and he’s not a good liar if asked about it, but he’s a well-liked regular at his local theatres. he’s occasionally mistaken for an aspiring actor himself with his passion and his boisterously earnest nature but no, his heart lies elsewhere. he just really likes the theatre

kabbu gets shy about it but he’s a really good singer too. mothiva will never know

chompy’s favorite bug is leif (of course, likewise leif spends the most time with chompy and talks to/about her often, although he kinda spoils her and she usually goes to him for sympathy whether earned or otherwise). she considers vi a playmate/rival much to vi’s chagrin. she sees kabbu as a firmer authority she can’t weasel past, but finds his approval all the more special, and often accompanies him/comforts him on his worse days whatever the reason may be.

chompy thinks todd (leif’s turbo nephew) is another chomper.

postcanon neolith fluent in roach

zasp and mothiva childhood friends mayhaps

more of a worldbuilding headcanon (because bug fables’ worldbuilding is a little bit flimsy for my tastes cough cough) but I think the bugs that exist outside of the strict “species = kingdom” is fun to consider. like moths being more nomadic and individualized, and it’s families and their descendants that align themselves with the kingdoms rather than a whole flutter of them. maybe it’s more common to see lone unassociated beetles than bees, for example. idk if I were braver about bugs I’d be attributing those traits more I like it when creatures are creatures with creature traits :] bug enthusiasts who attribute those traits for me are my heroes

also I know it’s a common headcanon but bug fables and hollow knight existing in the same universe is really fun. I don’t think they’re all that close to each other spacially or tonally but thematically and for the antics!! idk. maybe quirrel shows up on his precanon travels and warns about the folly of eternity and the numerous bugs devoting their lives in some way or form to finding the everlasting sapling just kinda. politely nods along vehemently disagreeing

[giomagnetism]

I require a 100k postcanon dunmeshi fic following laios w dense politics n indulgence in worldbuilding. and NO labru. stat

[horatiovonbecker]

Sect is about postcanon Taylor as a ghostly headmate, raising a girl who's been locked in a room her whole life and fed magic (qi) poisons so that her brother can claim their poison qi with less risk. Chapter 1 is them deciding they're out of time to prepare, and they need to kill (and eat) everyone else in the sect before they're fed a poison that will actually kill them.

It's also something like a backend fusionfic, where all of Worm is canon, but the fundamental cosmology and magic system is a xianxia setting. (Earths are generally too qi-poor to make Cultivators.) It's got some fascinating, delightfully well-researched worldbuilding - the author has done a lot of digging into Chinese myths and mysticism, geography, and history, into popular wuxia and xianxia novels, and also into theoretical physics - and the magic system is top-notch.

Notably, all cultivators of at least Immortal stage (and Shards count) have a Way; a magically-enforceable understanding of the entire world. Usually described in one word, but always more complicated under the surface - one of the author's notes describes Taylor circa early-middle Worm as having the (inactive) way of Duality, as in "the separation of things which are only perfect together", for example.

Given that you read Worm fanfic, and that Jagganoth, whose dungeon core story you introduced me to, is a big fan of Sect by Ryuugi (an excellent postcanon worm fanfic), I figured I'd ask if you are a fan of it also? The magic system in Are You Even Human reminds me quite a bit of it.

Never heard of it, actually. What's it about?