#thank u for the asks vela :D !!

[eliotquillon]

3, 4, 13, 14, 12 (enter passage/chapter/etc instead of episode lol), 24, 28.

3: Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

a/b/o but i feel like that’s a fairly common one so let me be controversial and say...high school au. look in my opinion all of the merits of a high school au are ALSO present in a college au and at least in a college au nobody is like. 14! plus i don’t understand why anybody would want to relive high school....willingly

4: How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

SO MANY. one is an alex rider tv russian doll au, another is my alex rider/hive crossover that. admittedly will maybe never see the light of day, and another is the “how raven blew up a dam in cuba with esteban” missing scene backstory. those are the ones i’m like. actively working on/thinking about but i have a bunch of others that are just permanently on the backburner

12: Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

for hive i am just. endlessly fascinated with the gap between aftershock and deadlock. it’s this six month long black hole that should be absolutely CHAOTIC (otto and raven tracking down the disciples, laura at the glasshouse, shelby and wing feeling isolated) and yet we really got nothing so i just love imagining what HAPPENED. alex rider tv i am obsessed with the kyra’s ambiguous episode 8 fate. oh and ohshc’s “hikaru and haruhi’s first date” episode is just a big 👁👁 for me as a kaoru/haruhi stan on main because HELLO! the whole premise of that episode is that haruhi agreed to go out with kaoru and they switched places! those r the main ones that make me go ham lol

13: What’s the best writing advice you’ve come across?

if you’re really stuck on part of a scene but know exactly what comes next, just put a placeholder sentence describing what you want to happen in and come back to it later. this may sound obvious but i think it genuinely changed my life LMAO

14: What’s the worst writing advice you’ve come across?

i think it’s a tie between jUsT wRiTe and ��don’t just edit it, rewrite it completely”. the second one i think CAN be good advice but for me personally it led to a hell loop where i rewrote the same scene/chapter no less than 6 times trying to ‘perfect’ it. it was. a waste of effort and ultimately i think i would’ve been better off just moving on

24: Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?

yes but not in a LOOOONGGG time. i deleted the first ever fic i wrote at the tender age of 9/10 when i was 12 bc it was cringe and i REALLY regret that bc i’d love to look back on it. i also deleted a harry potter/percy jackson fic i wrote when i was 11 bc i got a mean review saying it had no plot which. was true. but i took it personally lmao because i was 11!! but everything else i’ve written is still up for better or for worse....sweats in 2016 hamilton fanfiction

28: Share three of your favourite fic writers and why you like them so much!

it’s so hard to narrow it down to just three!

you’re definitely one of them; i love your imagery and your use of the second person and basically just. all of your nerostasia stuff. reading your anastasia pov always makes me go DAMN ms furan is FUCKED UP!!! but like in a way that makes me think about her for hours afterwards.

i also adore @spocks-evil-godmother’s stuff!! mitch’s characterisation is so wonderful and i kinda wanna keep her shelby in a box to just poke at sometimes because she’s SO DELIGHTFULLY SHELBY!! also her “big hairy raven fic” (aka there are no comets seen) changed my life maybe and i’m a bit unhealthily obsessed w it.

and then picking a third one is beyond difficult so i’m just going to list some ao3 usernames: dollsome, ilgaksu, Silver_Queen_DoS, solitarydreaming, pistachio_cat, warfare, and afrai. they all make the cut across like 20 different fandoms bc reading their fics makes my chest ache in the most bittersweet way, and all of their writing is outstanding ! there’s definitely some i’ve forgotten and some of these are more recent discoveries than others but i cannot praise them highly enough !!!

[goosedawn]

i've never listened to Friends At The Table (though it's on my list now, dnd campaigns podcast wooo!) what would the storyline of the crossover entail? with the HermitCraft characters i'm guessing it's chaotic and interesting 😊

:0!!!! :DDD!!!!!!! if u end up giving it a shot i hope u enjoy it! they dont actually play dnd, they play a bunch of other tabletop games which are all really neat also! (also if u need a suggestion for where to start if/when u get to it, feel free to drop me an ask)

the story follows the typical structure of "group is sent off to do tasks for money, and eventually realise something bigger is going on" so i am largely following the plot in that way, where groups of adventurers are sent out to investigate a series of towers that appear to have some connection to the gods of the world. ajhsjjejhfhjef most of my thoughts about the au are more character based,, so instead of a proper plot summary i can give details and thoughts on where some of the hermits fit into everything so far (while. trying to avoid the big twists revealed in the podcast ig,,?) i also ended up including some sleepybees (sbi + beeduo) in the au but im still not 100% sure on where they fit in (as in i have too many ideas djhdkndnj)

ANYWAY uhhhh some spoilers for the universe im basing this off of, under the cut cos it got long :'D

context/setting:

the specific arc/universe that this au is set in is the one from Seasons in Hieron (SiH) which is their fantasy season! (its. its long,, this arc spans i think. 3 seasons? plus a short interlude season)

the setting was previously a traditional fantasy world that had some sort of great catastrophe (the Erasure) happen, and the current world is after people have rebuilt a new society! its described as "post-fantasy, post-post-apocalyptic" its very fun and subversive and afhdjfbj the worldbuilding is just. real good :>

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characters:

im still figuring out where different hermits fit into the au but i am basically taking aspects of various characters from the podcast and splitting roles and traits to hermits, so its all mixed up! also,, there are just. so many hermits,, i have not found places for all of them (not even most of them i dont think) but here is what i have so far:

impulse and zedaph work in the New Archives (a series of huge warehouse-like archives run by the orcs of this world!) impulse is an orc, zed is not! impulse works to retrieve artifacts for the archive, and zed,, hes just kinda there. learning and experimenting with pattern magic (a type of magic done by arranging and rearranging things in specific configurations, often they are obscure and weird things like "27 brown birds in a tree, 5 table legs, 500 buttons, 16 steps to the east" etc.) when the story finds them they are studying a fallen tower in the center of the Mark of the Erasure (a location still showing the effect of the great cataclysm that befell the world)

tango vaguely takes the role of Ephraim, prince of something or rather,,, idk man hes cool and has fire powers, very anime. his powers were a gift from the gods, and he goes on to hv close relations w them! he meets up with impulse and zed later on and become fast friends obviously

joe is an expert in pattern magic, and is on the run from the archives after having stolen a pretty nondescript notebook. its a nice notebook! hes just a human guy. he writes and recites poetry in order to do pattern magic using the notebook!

cleo hails from the city of *Nacre*, where people get multiple chances at life. people from there can get killed but will exist on as zombies, then if they are killed again, they exist as ghosts, and then they pass away fully. she is an undead pirate captain that joe somehow manages to sway over to their side ahjbhfbjf,, she is hunting down the lost prince/king of Nacre.

wels is a pala-din (pal-ah-deen, rather than paladin), a sort of living marble statue that serves one of the gods in the pantheon.

scar is ofc, a wizard! it. it should be noted that wizards dont really exist in this world, people who perform and study magic are mages, not wizards,, "wizard" is kind of a weird term to use sjbdbjhfjjhb scar takes place of The Great Fantasmo in the podcast, and similarly has an invisible assistant! he doesnt seem to remember much of his past...

cubfan works in Velas, a fishing town where the story "begins" he does not enjoy talking to scar, and seems to be sad whenever hes around. perhaps scar reminds him of someone, or perhaps of better times...

tfc hes a priest aagsuijdjhkdgjdkihwhjvd i swear theres a reason for this later,, the role of the npc alyosha is somewhat split between tfc and cub!

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others i have thoughts on but im not settled on yet:

im debating having xisuma as part of the pantheon, but if not, he would be a druid so he can shapeshift into animals sjbakjnsnfjb he would take the general role of Fero in the story, but would also be kind of split with evil x, who captures... a certain stubbornness and deepset frustration Fero has in later times.

etho could take the place of Samol, the first god to exist. he is the embodiment of this world, and is kind of isolated and strange wbhshjhbdbhjdjbdkjn,, strange /pos. hes also. kind of dissapearing though... i wonder why :)

while theoratically i could have xisuma as samol cos. yknow. admin. i think the vibes and role just fit etho better

and... if i had etho as samol i think it could be fun to have doc and bdubs as other members of the pantheon, if u go with their dynamic from the start of s7 they even fit the divorced couple vibe two of the gods have /lh /hj (nho pantheon pog..? maybe. theres a total of 5 deities in the pantheon tho...)

im leaning toward either false + stress or maybe gem + pearl pairs for two of the goddesses in the pantheon, but thatd probably depend on if i can find a better place for them ;P

techno and phil take the role of red jack, and techno is a Huge Oni Dude >:] in canon red jack has a cool horse!!! it fits!! hes also. heavily implied to be kinda immortal?? anyway. im torn on this because techno and phil ALSO fit the roles of some of the player characters, with relation to the missing prince/king of Nacre but im still working things out,,

no matter whats up with them, ranboo takes the role of bluejay, redjacks son, meeting up with tubbo and tommy who take the place of benjamin, the son of one of the player characters. tubbo and tommy kind of. get sent to another dimension to keep them safe,,? and live in a lie for many years before they are brought back.

when i first thought about this au, i also thought about the whole. sending child off into fake dimension to live life, and of course. i thought about. grumbot ofc and originally planned to have mumbo or grian take the place of that player character abhdfvnbrvbn but it also implies one or both of them would be paladins (not pala-din! just the normal religious knight) AND have connections to tubbo and tommy which is. funny but ehhhh idk.

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and that. maybe probably somewhat incoherent train of thought is what i have for the au so far! its. still very much a work in progress so thank you if you stuck through all that!! ive still got a lot to think abt in the au,,,, lots to figure out ;P hopefully i can iron it out a bit more in the future, but its fun to think about for the time being