#thank you Jim for indulging me UwU

[courtpheasent]

uhm hey so this for the ask game you reblogged 2 days ago? ik this is a lot of questions i just find your writing mesmerizing

A: How did you come up with the title to Hagelochus’s Weasel?

C: What member do you identify with most?

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

OKAY FIRST OFF THANK YOU BESTIE THIS IS SO SWEET OMG 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Anyway!!! Question time!!! I hope you guys are ready for a doozy cuz I love the sound of my voice and do not know how much info is to much info!!! :D

How did you come up for the title to Hegelochus’s Weasel?

I’m sure it’s obvious to anyone who’s scrolled through my Ao3 that I LIVE for obscure references and obnoxiously long titles. When deciding a title for a fic, there’s a lot of research involved. I have a tendency to root through the internet in an attempt to find historical events or people or famous body of works in order to make a proper Allusion.

However, Hegelochus came easier to me than that.

I was watching a YouTube video, and it mentioned this Guy named Hegelochus. He was an Athenian Actor in Ancient Greece who is only remembered today because of how badly he messed up.

He was is the play Orestes and he was supposed to say this one line “After the storm I see again a calm sea” (Euripides 1.1.279.) But he got the pronunciation wrong and instead said, and I quote, “After the storm I see again a weasel.” After that stunt he was so ridiculed that he never acted again.

So after doing a little research, I concluded that this was indeed a true story and also perfect for the fic that I was writing at the time. I mean after all, the fic is about a man who says the wrong thing and the wrong time and it p much wrecks his life 🤷

What member do you identify the most with?

This is. A very hard question to answer actually. I’m assuming this is asking what creator I identify most with??? I think @squarefriend would have to be the answer to that, because we’ve shared a lot of similar experiences!!! Though honestly, I would also have to say that I identify a lot with you to my dude!!! I’ve never really met someone who also uses it/its pronouns before, so I can real identify with that UwU

If we’re talking about character tho, That’s gonna have to be Alphys or Papyrus from Undertale. I project a little to much onto those two :P

Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out in order?

PREP WORKS FOR PUSSIES.

Jkjk. I tend to just pick a starting place and just. Go. Not the best way because I usually don’t even have the ending planned out before I dive in, but oh well. Some of my most popular fics were only written in like. Thirty minutes. Not exactly something I’m proud of, but what else can you do :/

Also like all of my fics are based off mini comics I doodle in the margins of my notes, so there’s that :D

What Fandom troops can you just not resist?

OHHOHI BOY THAT IS A LONG LIST.

I ADORE hurt/comfort more than life itself. Also when someone is hurt and they try and hide it??? That shit is the bomb. I have never loved anything more in my life.

OH. And when someone is holding a glass or something like that, and it shatters as their grip closes around it. No spoilers, but I injected that into Alexander full heartedly. You’ll see what I mean later ;)

What Fandom tropes can you not stand?

My god, whenever a character messes something up and the entire group is mad at them, it just. Gets my goat. Like not the big group break up (that’s fine!) but like when everybody’s mad at somebody for something stupid they did. I can’t think of any examples right now, but you guys know what I’m talking about, right? I have really bad second hand embarrassment so it really wigs me out lmaooo

If you like this trope tho, then more power to you!!! It’s not bad by any means, just not something I really enjoy ^^

Major character death- something you would read/write? Any character that is off limits?

To be completely honest, it kinda depends??? Like, it it’s well written, I’ll read it. Heck. I’ve even considered WRITTING stuff that involves major character death. So yeah. Case by case 🤷

No characters are really off limits. I don’t really like reading about bad stuff happening to little kids, but when it comes to consuming as much Toriel angst as I possibly can, it just kinda becomes unavoidable.

Woof this got long!!! Sorry about that my dudes, just got a little carried away. Anyway, Imma include some sources for the whole Hegelochus thing and also the link to my Ao3 account. Thanks for reading, and Have a nice night!!! ^^

@applygenderonchild

https://archiveofourown.org/users/TownFowl

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannyrion