#we shall see.

[dualclock]

took a notes-app crack at one of @charseraph 's crowns. I've always loved these guys. The platonic ideal of goofy and dignified.

[roserefrain]

birthday in two days. does a little spin.

[mists-reading-nook]

Sagau brainrot

Ok,so it's based off of soldier poet king,and basically, the reader (aka the king) is the creator. BUT,they often play with 2 other people (the soilder and poet),and those people are regarded as smaller,but just as powerful gods.

So,isekai. The imposter situation Is basically due to a misunderstanding (the soilder and poet took care of readers genshin acc for a bit) so,when they both get transported in an attempt to "bring the creator back",they are imprisoned (maybe soilder manages to escape a couple times,so they're in a lot worse shape than poet). The creator notices genshin being weird,stops playing for a LONG while, (time dilation happens),and they get pulled back bc some one new is on the banner! Yay! Yeah they get sucked into tevyat.

Yadda yadda,cult stuff. After a couple weeks,they have to ACTUALLY do god stuff,and the first order of business is punishing some imposters who tried to claim the throne by "claiming kinship to the high god".

Reader asks to see them,and HOLY SHIT ITS SOILDER AND POET??

big reunion,ect;

Finally,cult au shenanigans ensue. But with 3 times the chaos.

[queerholmcs]

it's been a minute and it's a monday evening! but! tab is really good bc they give the unambiguous statement that None Of This Is Real and therefore we can just do away with the clever subtext bit and rather just Say Things! deep waters nothing made me since when do you call me john you are flesh and blood there are no ghosts pure reason toppled by sheer melodrama did you miss me......... mwah........

[timeskip]

????????? Who the hell are you

Are you................ the child from 19 years ago (keeps thinking that anyone could be the child from 19 years ago, except this time it actually seems likely because WHY ELSE WOULD THERE BE A CHILD OLDER THAN JESSICA. What kind of alternate universe is this. How did this happen. What changed because of it...)

Also fun and notable is that at least in the first bit about them, their gender is being avoided. Which is kind of obvious in english... sorry to japanese games for ruining your interesting gender twists with our translations...

[werewolfest]

Learned how to make rings out of copper n now I’m doing this :+)

[twinkleomorashi]

Fic should hopefulllyyy update by thanksgivingish god willing. Idk if anyone actually gives a shit about the character building parts but I haven’t written everyone hanging out all together in FOREVER so it’s taking me a bit to work out the interactions between everyone because they’re gonna be more important later on lol.

But of course there will be piss as well because that’s what we’re all here for so place your bets on the poor victim this time.

[johnbottoms]

need to rewatch pacific rim and gather some screencaps. for reasons

[suntoru]

how was your break dearest? did you drink sufficient amounts of water.

i am a dehydrated little fish. need to drink more water

IT WAS GOOOOOD THE OCEAN WAS RLLY NICE. BUT THEN MY DEMON OLDER SISTER SPLASHED ME WITH THAT SALTY AHHH WATER AND MY EYES WERE BURNING.

[crimeronan]

i got up and ran An Errand (very brave). am now conserving my energy in favor of going out tonight instead of exploring today. with any luck i won't sleep through all the stuff i wanna do this evening

[evilpenguinrika]

I found the six language/old/ancient scripts that I really like that would be the influence for these made-up languages/scripts for another story (the one I did my first NaNoWriMo on that's also based off of a cringe comic series I made when I was 14) so now I have to figure out a way to create these new languages while drawing influences and inspirations from the ones I chose and I think I might just buy a new notebook. again. it's fine.

[rifleseye]

hrmmm

[dennisboobs]

oh baby you know i reserved a dennis community

[dollyrins]

my 17th valentine single.... yeah y'all aren't getting anything cute from me.

[blujayonthewing]

the last couple of times I've said 'this time next week I'll be sleeping in the dirt and eating bugs as god intended' I got hit with 36 straight hours of rain and then covid and then really bad elevation sickness but THIS TIME FOR SURE,

[ratcandy]

hi hello hi!! i just finished bingereading cogr and i hope you don't mind if i yell into your inbox about your fic lol

SO FIRST OF ALL. i never expected i would get so attached to zote. but now i am! i will never get the neglect achievement after reading this. but i can't even be mad it's so good

i have to say that it's a really, REALLY good example of how to add depth to a normally unlikable character! like by the end zote is still at least a bit of a bastard, but after knowing how horribly literally everything in his life has gone you can't help but feel bad for him and hope things start looking up.

plus, it provides an explanation for why he's Like That. genuinely if he got therapy to work through his multitude of issues he'd probably be, like, 10x nicer about everything.

also while i did read the tags, i can't say i expected it to be THAT dark, mostly because i was thinking "it's a fic about zote being a nosk it can't be THAT bad." but nope! this man is suicidally depressed and by the end he's barely even trying to hide it. i don't mind though, it's DELICIOUS angst

OH and the format of the fic, where it's presented as zote talking to Someone Else, is absolutely GENIUS for this fic. genuinely this choice makes the fic so much better. i mean ok to start off i normally hate first-person pov in fanfiction but this sort of format i like. HOWEVER that's not my main point here

this structure lets zote's personality really shine through. if it wasn't filtered like this, first of all everything would be revealed way too quickly but also the writing would lose all of its character and emotion. plus the tangents and mid-sentences corrections, the way he corrects and interrupts himself...it's all BECAUSE of how this fic is framed. i just...aaah!! i don't know how to FULLY express how much i love the way cogr is framed. just know that i think it was a perfect choice on every possible level

OH I JUST REMEMBERED!! it makes the ending possible, and holy shit the ending. it's SUCH a gutpunch to realize he's all alone, talking to nobody, and then he just...keeps on talking. i am still reeling from it as i type this ask. bravo i think this is one of the best endings to a fic i've seen, especially for a sad ending

other things i've noticed!! first of all, there is excellent use of zote's unreliable narrating for foreshadowing, as well as wonderful callbacks and parallels!! i don't remember everything 100% since i was admittedly reading pretty quickly but from what i DO remember, i'm pretty sure i could go through cogr and find a TON of good stuff like this.

one thing i noticed in particular, the way he based himself off of vessels...DELICIOUS parallels there. i don't remember everything like i said but i'm pretty sure zote says some stuff about how it was dangerous to express emotions in the nosk den? stuff like that makes the way zote chose to disguise himself as a vessel just...augh. perfection 10/10

i also LIVE for your nosk lore and worldbuilding. i don't have much to say about this i just really like worldbuilding and this is quality

i also decided to read the trivia doc and first of all. the yikes ending would have been...i want to say cruel but honestly i'm more inclined to say tragic? although cogr is already a tragedy...ooh that would be interesting analysis, although i don't really have fully formed thoughts on it yet

ON A LIGHTER NOTE, the au in the trivia doc with zote AND two siblings?? it's one of the only ways that this whole mess could go happily (although that's to be expected of a hollow knight thing tbh), and i am rotating it in my mind.

ANYWAY that's all i have to say!! or well it isn't but it's all i can think of and actually communicate understandably lol. anyway cogr is a 10/10 fic and i will be thinking about it for the rest of my life

I'M SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS ASK <-- SHE'S LYING SHE MIMED PUNCHING A WALL AND YELLED OUT LOUD "YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!" WHILE SHE READ

I am deVOURING this I . HOUGH. Big long ask about my big long fic I must consume it so vigorously. my TTEEETH are ripping INTO THIS

OK !! 1: GOOD That you're attached to Zote now!!!!! I love hearing that I've dragged people into Hell unimaginable!!!! Fuck yeaH!!!

AND 2: hhoughHHHhhgouh ;s;;;;; hhhhg;sh. This ask is so nice I am smiling so much and giggling and kicking my feet. also the hdgKJH "It can't be THAT dark!" hdgkJH YEAH. IT. Tends to blindside people from what I've heard!!!!!!

Hhoguhhh ;;; I wish I could respond in a more cohesive manner but I am jus. Gushing . Thank youuu thank you so much I'm so normal about getting complimented

ALSO YOU DRAWING THE PARALLEL BETWEEN HIS DIGUISE BEING A VESSEL .... I kid you not I Out Loud just went YES!!! and started clapping and hooting and hollering because i"m so normal especially when my Funny Symbolism gets noticed dhKSHDGKLHG

AS for whether CoGR counts as an honest Tragedy ... obviously I would DEVOUR any analysis on it BUT From My perspective. I go with a Maaaybe ? Since tragedies are like. The downfall is brought about by the protagonist's own actions. And like. Yes! But also ? but also Sort of! I'm not sure!!!!!!

AND SIBLINGS AU YES!!!!!! That one has been developed a bit more since that trivia doc thing!!!!! I'll tag the siblings au tag in the. Tags, an u can go through what we had for it!!!!! It is indeed the only happy version of the story (with some inevitable angst still sprinkled in of course) but!! YEA!! Bronze (Zote's brother) and Silva (Zote's sister) are my beloveds for all time

OK I'm normal now. I'm so normal.Yep. Thumbsup emoji THANK YOU SO much for this ask I .will be returning to it frequently I'm sure. just so I can go EEE and flail my arms around and rip my teeth into it <33333333