#wolfsnake au

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I was rummaging through your archives in search of smth (don't worry, I'm sure I'll find it) and in the replies of one of the posts I was rereading, I saw that you asked if Marda clan mages could sense each other! (It was one of those horrid days where I was very tired but couldn't sleep so I unfortunately missed the question, OOPS) And the answer is, I think they can! The closer they're to someone the easier they can sense each other, maybe, I don't really have the words for it but when you get really familiar with someone, you remember the “feel” of their magic, if that makes sense?

I took a while to get to this, so I trust you managed to find what you were looking for? I suspected that might be the answer and I think it makes sense that magic would be tangible and recognisable as distinct to a user, especially if there's closeness between them. And oh, this is horrible, but while answering this ask I just had the thought that if they can sense each other / each other's magic like this then they must also be able to sense when it stops. As in, when one of them dies. A sudden absence that can only mean one thing, whether it happens in the heat of battle or just on an ordinary day with no warning. Filing this under thoughts I don't want to follow too far because I am already wounding myself with them.

And now for the obligatory Team Zahhak tangent. It's canon that the mages have like... a really vile aura that can be sensed, at least by some, when they are nearby. Your ask reminded me of my headcanon that Zandeh not only becomes accustomed to it but can pick out when it's Gurgin rather than any of the other sorcerers (I guess this one was based on anime canon where their involvement with Team Hilmes was more open but it I think it works in any context in the sense of 'evil presence' becoming 'Gurgin!'. And while he might have got used to the feel of Gurgin, the others probably still register as 'wrong / unsettling').

(Meanwhile, for Wolfsnake AU which really needs a better name, Isfan always registers Gurgin as a threat, especially when he sneaks up or appears without warning as he is prone to doing, but, well, emotions can cloud your judgement, and that feeling is at odds with his belief that Gurgin is a comrade and not an enemy. Of course, eventually he'll find out that he should have just trusted his instincts.)

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It fills me with dread, too! It really would have a significant negative effect on Isfan. And when he asks Team Arslan "Is this true?" with a distraught expression on his face, it's not like they can deny it.

Gurgin's actually just grappling for anything that will keep Isfan on his side and give him an advantage or a bit of control over things. While recruiting Isfan may have idly crossed his mind much earlier, I think he (correctly) never saw it as a realistic option but more like an excuse for having contact with him to start with. He might claim that he believes Isfan has a right to know (though if he thought that then why didn't he speak up about it earlier?) and I think he genuinely does sympathise with Isfan regarding what happened that night, but really he's just using it to try and sow division between Isfan and the rest of Team Arslan.

And the irony is that Gurgin's own grief for his brother was also used by Team Zahhak to their advantage and he doesn't fucking see it.

The other Wolfsnake AU moment that I'm going quietly feral about is Gurgin being the one to tell Isfan how his grief was used by Team Arslan to orchestrate Gieve's departure.

Oh oh OHHHHHH that concept fills me with dread (in a good way) because it'd affect Isfan a lot!! Ohhh my god! He's not gonna take it well! He's gonna have so many self-esteem issues from this 😭 I wonder if Gurgin told him bc he had a right to know, or was he trying to like, recruit Isfan? Or maybe it's a mix of both.

[xandriagreat]

At Last I See The Light

Here's the lantern scene!

Wolf and Snake are enjoying the lights.

Bonus at undercut:

Webs, Diane, Shark, and Piranha are enjoying the lights too.

[littlestsnicket]

tag nine people you want to get to know better

(oh no, me and my antisocial self is going to have to come up with nine people now if that's being clearly stated in the title)

thanks @witch-and-her-witcher for tagging me

three ships: yennskier, doctor/master, and lemonberry-ice (i ship lots of things, so i picked one from each of the fandoms i'm thinking about the most right now)

last song: the lucky one, au revoir simone

last movie: i literally just finished watching the tale of princess kaguya (the animation style is just so lovely and it's been on my list for a while because some uquiz said she was the princess i most identify with. i am not at all sure how i feel about it, although given what i remember of the choices, it's probably true)

currently reading: i'm in the middle of re-reading sword of destiny and neuromancer and deep wizardry (i started a lot of books at once, that's not typical of me) and the unauthorized autobiography (for fic research purposes though, so it doesn't really count)

currently watching: seinfeld (i'm enjoying it a lot more than i thought i would, although it might be some weird sort of home sickness since i grew up on long island and although jerry seinfeld's voice is objectively annoying, it also sounds like home. also julia louis-dreyfus is very pretty and delightfully funny)

currently consuming: water, but i may make some sleepy time tea in a bit

currently craving: nothing, i was craving pizza. usually i don't eat pizza when i'm craving it because it just makes me sad (shhh, i rarely find non-long island pizza satisfying, and there are plenty of people who routinely make fun of me for this) but i had pizza for dinner and it was actually really good. i am very satisfied.

psychologically, maybe a solid 8 hours of sleep, but i'm cautiously optimistic that i will get in bed within the next hour, spend some time reading, and then get a good night's sleep. oh. also i am craving the stupid car dealership actually receiving the car they are trying to sell me. please!!

tagging: @soymimikyu, @virginian-wolfsnake, @valdomarx, @jacobsnicket, @whoslaurapalmer, @lyeekha, @beatricebidelaire, @kitsnicket

[lemonysnicket]

Do you have any Snkckervwrse fanfiction recommendations? I'm curious

oooo !! ok so psa i actually haven't read much snicket fanfic in a very long time? so i am not quite up to date with the times nowadays JDKLJDSG. but !! i do have a few faves from when i was very avidly following the snicket tags on ao3.

first of all literally any of @virginian-wolfsnake 's works are just. showstopping incredible heartbreaking and brilliant. i am always FLOORED by their writing and i truly cannot recommend their stuff enough. 11/10. wonderful

2. @beatricebidelaire has some wonderful fics as well!! i especially love this one of esme/georgina because uhhhh duh? it's great. i just love their exploration of the sugar bowl gen and dynamics between the characters

3. ok i had to do some digging to find this one because it's been years and i could not for the life of me recall its name or author - i have no idea how it's aged but i remember absolutely adoring this fic back when i started venturing into the fandom. it's just fluffy and nice and they get to be happy! which is nice. i figured i would mention it because 14 year old me was obsessed with it back when i liked fix it au's and happy content whereas now i am much more invested in sugar bowl gen agony

4. @whencartoonsruletheworld 's stranger things au was a very fun read !! i really enjoy the plot and the way the setting is used with the snicket characters. also i just like the amount of autistic rep too. and good fiona content. always.

yeah uhhhh that's really all i can think of? i'm really not great at keeping up with fanworks nowadays so actually i would love to hear everyone else's fanfiction recommendations !! :)

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Two more kids because why not

[unibeartoon]

Pokemon! Mr.wolf evolving and mr.snake gay panicking for @rycelyfe

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You know you're deeply infected with the Wolfsnake brainrot when you catch yourself thinking 'what if they kissed in the Dark Temple 😇🤤💀'

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.Rockband AU

G.O.A.T.

First started by Lucio, who insisted on pronouncing it ‘Greatest of All Time’ but the fans just shorten it to GOAT and it stuck. 

Consisted of Lucio (Guitar/Lead Vocals), his girlfriend at the time Nadia (Drums/Backup Vocals), Julian (Bass/Keyboard), and occasionally, his sister Portia (Backup Vocals/Keyboard).

Nadia is classically trained and can just about play any instrument you hand her.

Portia and Nadia have been best friends since grade school.

The Devorak siblings tend to switch out because there is always something going on with one or the other 

Julian got sent to boarding school abroad at one point, sometimes they swap to play with Asra and Muriel’s band, etc.

Lucio always insisted on having really flashy shows with lasers and fog machines, so Nadi and Lucio spend quite a bit of time tinkering with DIY effects. 

Something goes wrong with one of Lucios pyrotechnics and well....y’know.

After a three year hiatus, Nadia takes over as Lead Vocalist, handing Drums over to Portia. She decides to keep the name the same (despite constantly insisting on changing it when Lucio was alive) in his memory. 

Their music has actually gotten faster paced and gained a harsher sound while still sounding very melodic.

They play a lot at music festivals.

Most of their following is on youtube, since Portia also posts vlogs and behind the scenes things.

Asra & Muriel

Do they have a band name? Yes. Does it change every few days? Also yes. 

Faustian Bargain, Inanna’s human, Mystic Crystals, Snakewolf, Wolfsnake, SnakeBEAR, Bearsnake, and Hoe but Fashion are all names they’ve tried at some point or another.

They both play instruments and sing together

Muriel prefers to harmonize though, and doesn’t mind letting Asra take the lead in performances.

Julian was a shortlived member of the band when he was dating Asra. That didn’t last very long.

Rather popular on soundcloud, especially since Asra started messing around with making remixes.

Play at some of the clubs in the area on weekends.

They have gotten panties thrown at them. Muriel throws them back.

They’re a really weird mix of folk, rock, and EDM that somehow works really well together when they do it.

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Tangled/The Bad Guys Au

This was inspired by @luonnonvalinnat and @royallydivinelesbian (this post).

Feel free to use them, please tag me if you do.

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Just to make things clear, Snake in this is a sundrop snake, that's why his tooth is gold. When both snake teeth are chipped, that's when he loses his heal bite and is a normal snake. Anyways, drawings!

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1. The smolder is literally just Wolf doing puppy eyes.

2. Snake's different clothes. The first one is like a hospital gown because he's like being tested with his healing bite. The second one is a gift from one of the tavern workers. Also, Webs approves with the outfit.

3. Diane is the owner of the tavern. Shark and Piranha are one of workers. The tavern is mostly where "bad guys" come in and be who they dream to be.

[littlestsnicket]

tagged by @virginian-wolfsnake (thank you :) i still have a bunch of your fic open in tabs to re-read)

Fanfic writer 20 questions

how many fics do you have on ao3?

110 (that's not as many as it seems, i've written a lot of drabbles and have had my account since 2014)

2. what is your ao3 word count?

65,046 (see, not actually that much writing)

3. how many fandoms do you write for and what are they?

according to my ao3 stats, lots. slightly more than i can fit on my phone screen at once, lots. that i've written more than a few fics for an would consider writing in again if the mood struck me: community, doctor who, a series of unfortunate events, twin peaks, the witcher. (there's also a decent amount of marvel comic related fic, but i don't really see myself going back to that.)

4. what are your top five fic by kudos?

mending what's not quite broken: post season 2 witcher fic exploring geralt and ciri and jaskier and yennefer's relationship dynamic. it started as me being pissy about fanon takes on several things and ended up being a heartfelt exploration of unrequited love and that being ok, actually. it is also almost 4 times longer than anything else i have written. anyway, it's probably the thing i am most proud of, so it's cool it's at the top of the kudos list.

it's all fun and games: community fic where annie and abed have sex for the first time as themselves (in the sense that the fic implies that they very regularly have sex with each other while pretending to be other people). platonic soulmates with benefits ftw.

uncooperative sobering up: community fic exploring troy's feelings about abed and the emotional fallout of mixology certification.

(take your time) coming home: community fic set in a slight au where troy goes back to greendale near the end of season 6. it's mostly about the things that stay the same when it seems like everything has changed.

long distance confessionals: community fic set post season 6, where jeff calls abed in the middle of the night to have a small mental breakdown. (i regret not putting slightly more effort into this fic title, otherwise it's a solid fic.)

(you have to go down like 15 spots to get to asoue fic, which is not intellectually surprising cause teeny tiny fandom that i joined late, but i feel like i got such good responses to my asoue fic? i guess comments from people who's usernames i recognize feels better than kudos.)

5. do you respond to comments? why or why not?

most of the time. i like to let people know how i felt about their comment, even if it's just a quick thanks!

6. what is the fic you've written that had the angstiest ending?

that's an interesting question. i usually aim to end my fic on a reasonably optimistic note. probably scraps of paper concealed in handshakes (lemony and beatrice and bertrand pass notes after lemony fakes his death) or audible capital letters (yennefer and jaskier have a very silly conversation about science). they are both, overall, quite silly, but they both end with me going 'hey, remember the awful thing that is going to canonically happen next?!?'

7. do you write crossovers?

generally no, but i am very proud of the one i wrote, where dale cooper visits the snicketverse: iron filings drawn to a magnet

8. have you ever gotten hate on a fic?

not really? i have gotten a few comments where my response was 'i'm not sure why you felt the need to tell me that' but nothing i would actually classify as hate.

9. do you write smut? if so what kind?

uh, sure. i have written a handful of fics with 'on screen' sex. i wouldn't really classify them as smut though. i feel a bit bad, because i read a lot of smut and would like to give back to the smut reading community. i just... i don't like sharing things that aren't as good as i feel i can personally make them, and it's very awkward to put that much thought into sex (for me at least), so unless it's furthering some thematic point, i'm probably not going to manage to write it.

10. have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i noticed, at least.

11. have you ever had a fic translated?

no. i had one of my drabbles podficced though, and that was incredibly exciting! i don't think i crossposted that. maybe i should? cuase it's really good! i've never interacted with the person that did it outside of the comment they made asking for permission and me commenting on the podfic that i was very excited that they had done it. i don't know what the etiquette for this is. someone also drew fanart for one of my atwq fics, i should have added a link to the story at the time, but i did not, so it's lost to the lack of thorough tagging on my tumblr...

12. have you ever co-written a fic?

no. i'm pretty sure my writing process is so erratic and undisciplined (i don't even write drabbles in order) that this would be impossible. i do really enjoy bouncing ideas off my beta reader though.

13. what is your all time favorite ship?

oh. this is so hard. uh... i think the doctor and the master. they can have the sex positive asexual vibe that i love so much (like, even when you write it romantically, they're intellectual rivals and friends first). and the lovers to enemies vibe. and the you make me question myself at my very core vibe. and the no one will ever understand me as much as you do (and i hate you for it) vibe.

14. what is a work in progress that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

well, all of my asoue and witcher wips (and the disastrous twin peaks cooper and caroline in pittsburgh story) are things i am definitely totally 100 percent going to finish writing one day.

back when i was still writing community fic, i started writing always a girl!abed nadir fic, and it's a bunch of disconnected scenes jumping around at least 4 seasons of the show, and i am never going to write something of that scope, probably not for anything, definitely not for that. i am seriously considering cleaning it up a bit and just posting them as ficlets though. they parallel the actual show pretty closely so they don't need a ton of context.

15. what are your writing strengths?

being concise and having every word mean something. i hope, at least. i spent enough time writing drabbles, obsessing over that sort of thing to get the word count that i hope it carries into my longer stuff.

maybe willingness to go back to the source material? i think of fic as having an interconnected conversation with the source material and fandom at large, so my fic tends to have some sort of thesis (at least in my head) so i hope that results in my work being interesting.

16. what are your writing weaknesses?

setting. in fic, you can mostly give the reader hints to remind them of the shared setting that already lives in both of your heads. but then sometimes you need to be in a new place, and HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH OF IT TO DESCRIBE?!? is it even important at all? i usually lean on the side of less is more, but is it?!?!

it does not help that i picture things very vividly when i'm reading, but it's based on vibes and my brain being highly associative and sometimes flat out ignores the description that is actually in the text. so on the one hand, i want the reader to see what i'm seeing, but on the other, description of setting doesn't matter much to me as a reader, so it's very confusing.

17. what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

personally, i find it frustrating unless i can easily understand it from context or my lack of understanding is meaningful in some way. but, especially if you--the writer--are a polyglot, why not?

i would personally be uncomfortable trusting google translate, and it would have to be really important to what i was trying to achieve to go through the process of asking a real person.

18. what is the first fandom you ever wrote for?

doctor who, i think? that's certainly the first thing i posted on ao3, and i think all of the messing about with writing i did before that was original fiction. oh. technically, i was in a harry potter roleplaying community back in... 2006? i was mostly a spectator and find the process of role playing to be quite boring. (another reason--although i acknowledge it is somewhat different--that i wouldn't co-write fic.)

19. what's you favorite fic you've ever written?

aaaaah... this is really hard. this probably isn't even true, but I'm going to go with Someone lost to both of us. it just... achieves so many of the things i wanted to achieve with it, and i wrote it in like an hour and did approximately no editing, so i'm always a bit staggered when i reread it and have no notes.

20. who do you tag?

oh no... it's taken me so long to do this i can't remember who has already been tagged.

@valdomarx, @kuwdora, @olivia-calidamn but only if you want, of course!

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As is probably very obvious I'm fixated on Wolfsnake AU right now and this is one of the songs from the playlist I made that definitely fits with the vibe of Isfan encountering Gurgin in the Dark Temple. It's unsettling and more than a little unhinged (very much suits Gurgin, especially when he's in his own territory).

(Also on Youtube with lyrics in the description.)

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Sorry!! But yeah this happening in a public setting is deliberate on Gurgin's part when it would've been much kinder to tell Isfan in private to let him process it and decide how to address it. However, it works better for Gurgin to put Team Arslan on the spot, make them look bad. They don't trust him, Isfan doesn't trust him? Fine, but now Isfan won't trust them either.

The other Wolfsnake AU moment that I'm going quietly feral about is Gurgin being the one to tell Isfan how his grief was used by Team Arslan to orchestrate Gieve's departure.

Oh oh OHHHHHH that concept fills me with dread (in a good way) because it'd affect Isfan a lot!! Ohhh my god! He's not gonna take it well! He's gonna have so many self-esteem issues from this 😭 I wonder if Gurgin told him bc he had a right to know, or was he trying to like, recruit Isfan? Or maybe it's a mix of both.

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Since it feels like ages since I've posted about Gurgin yet he is always in my thoughts, here's a specific thought that popped into my head at random while I was at work recently: modern day Wolfsnake AU Gurgin wearing his dead brother's clothes 🥲

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tfw your partner sends you a message at work "I've got a song for your playlist" and the first line of that song is 'You are one of god's mistakes' 🥲