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[fyngrot]

what do you think would have happened if Ygryk had managed to turn Hoole into a hagsfiend?

honestly? this is a BANGER idea for an au i love it so much!!! there’s a lot of potential for this to change EVERYTHING. my thoughts got pretty long so i’m putting them under the cut:

young hoole not knowing what’s happening to him or what it means, but knowing it’s not good by the reactions of the owls around him- thus having to grapple with the changes to himself as he learns he became the very thing responsible for the loss and turbulence throughout his early life. i think it’s likely grank and theo (and siv, from a distance) would immediately set to finding some way to reverse the transformation, while also having to defend hoole from ygryk and pleek trying to take him and claim him as their son. hoole becomes more and more confused and torn as powerful nachtmagen begins to manifest within him, causing his companions and family to view him with fear. feeling rejected for reasons outside his control and desperate for answers, he could flee and seek out ygryk himself, begging her to change him back- and in my hagsfiend-loving brain this is where i would want him to discover a positive side to hagsfiends and begin to feel sympathy for them >:) like he’s angry at her for doing this, he knows ygryk isn’t his mother and doesn’t want her to be, but nonetheless she could be important to teaching him about what he’s become, how to control his magic, and cause a growing appreciation for his new form as he observes the genuine (even if misdirected) feelings of hagsfiends and struggles they face.

hoole’s retrieval of the ember could occur under the context of grank (who has become a bit obsessed with “fixing” hoole, inadvertently driving hoole away from him as a result) thinking it will be able to transform him back and pushing him to do so, thus coinciding with the reveal that hoole has begun to ally with hagsfiends and doesn’t necessarily WANT to change back. as a reflection of his feelings and the meaning he has discovered for himself thanks to his new form, the ember does nothing but strengthen his nachtmagen, and to grank’s horror many hagsfiends begin to flock (heh. bird words) behind him as a result, heralding him as king. while some owls do view the ember as proof that he is the king and lay aside their doubts to establish the guardians alongside the hagsfiends, consorting with hagsfiends and a hagsfiend king would certainly be a point of contention among others. i think for grank especially, accepting the change and the fact that hoole /doesn’t/ want to turn back would be a long and tough road, but he would eventually come around because he realizes hoole is still his foster son and he loves him no matter what. other owls, not so much- i can definitely see some forces in the n’yrthghar questioning HF!hoole’s validity as king and trying to overthrow the great tree, maybe causing the final battle to take on a different context……. .. . and of course there would be a divide between hoole and owls that ally with hagsfiends but aren’t necessarily “good”, like lord arrin. this would definitely create quite the nuanced conflict for sure!

ultimately with this idea in mind hoole would become a bridge between owls and hagsfiends, and it’s exciting to think about the implications and changes that could make to the plot of book 11 especially! lutta… i can definitely see her still existing in this au, a second attempt by ygryk/pleek for a child after it becomes clear hoole may be an ally to them, but will never consider them family. perhaps as they get to know him and observe the struggles they’ve caused, they even begin to feel guilt over their decision to transform him, realizing they must find a way to create their own child rather than take another’s.

when lutta comes into the story, it would likely be a result of kreeth observing the sheer power in nachtmagen the ember has granted hoole, and wanting it for herself (she’s too fiercely independent to follow anyone as king, even if said king is a powerful hagsfiend LOL). buuut it backfires when HF!hoole is able to see through the disguise and discern what lutta is right away, extend her sympathy, and perhaps fully accept her as a companion and allow her to live at the tree in peace 👀 ESPECIALLY with their shared experiences with ygryk, and her role in turning them both into something unnatural to fulfill her own desires being a factor towards hoole and lutta truly connecting and bonding! (i think a lot about lutta’s feelings towards the fact she could have hatched as a normal great horned owl if it weren’t for ygryk and pleek having kreeth create them a child…….that they then abandoned anyway……man)

being the hagsfiend fan that i am i would personally take an au like this in the above direction of hoole embracing his hagsfiend form and spurring acceptance between hagsfiends and owls as a result, but i think there’s definitely multiple ways to go about it and one where hoole views the form as a curse and willingly seeks a way to reverse it alongside his companions could be just as compelling- but ultimately i feel as if it’s just not in his nature to fully despise hagsfiends, and despite the associated troubles i believe a transformation like this would amount to some level of positive understanding whether he embraces being a hagsfiend or not! much to consider 🤔

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I've never been more normal in my life.

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[technically-human]

Your art is so, so, so, so cute. If you ever were so inclined, I would love to see your take on Charles finally getting to eat a plate of spaghetti

Edwin wasn't too sure he liked it, but I think he's convinced now!

ko-fi

[skeletoninthemelonland]

my sister told me that if you put something in the internet, that thing no longer belongs to you, it belongs to the internet

[meanbossart]

You mentioned Drow having been raised by the drow & their interesting culture about sex. Due to Lolth/that culture being different from ours, does that mean he associates bottoming with social dominance?

Like not saying he doesn't get the surface attitude (if it exists, idk about Faerun's gender roles) is way different.

I've just honestly been thinking about this off and on for like a week now and had to ask. Your work gives the best brain worms. :)

First of all, getting this ask felt like I won something.

But ALAS, he does not. He left the Underdark quite young and before ever becoming sexually active, so, while he's aware of that particular outlook he does not abide by it - In fact, his resentment toward drow is so intense that he actively thinks the opposite out of spite.

But rather than it having anything to do with gender, to him bottoming is a submissive action in the same way that victim and perpetrator are clearly distinguishable in a stabbing based on who's holding the knife. (This is DU drow's brain right here, not mine, leave the police out of this).

And here's the thing - he wants to feel submissive in the bedroom, both because he enjoys it and in part due to his own sexual hangups. Violence, sex, and love are all overlapping concepts in his mind that he has a difficult time distinguishing from each other, and following the severing of ties with Bhaal those feelings do not go away.

One way he finds to deal with that is by lending the other party control, and bottoming just so happens to be a way he finds to do that; It's definitely more akin to a placebo effect, but hey, it works for him. Astarion also enjoys the arrangement so it's all well and good.

But to tie it back: as I'm pretty sure I've said before, he does sometimes play up the "Oh I'm a drow bottoming, so I guess I'm the woman" thing. He does it as a joke. He finds it funny. He tells you to get on with it because there's 15 other jaluks outside waiting for a turn. He grabs you by the back of the neck and demands you screw more kids into him so he can kill them at lolth's altar (cue laughter). He moans exaggeratedly and with a feminine cadence - but the biggest joke of all is that, by doing this, he's finding a way to be dominant in the bedroom in which he's comfortable with, and without it having anything with who is doing the stabbing.

Thank you for the ask, I hope you enjoy my fantasy 5D sex chess.

Anyway here's wonderwall

[chalkrub]

made a little linocut for pixie <:^) miss her so much

[solargeist]

"So technically Grian can meet any version of himself through Xelqua !"

Xelqua becomes the YHS Grian and Grian has war flashbacks (idk I've never watched the series)

YHS isn't canon to EvoAU ! So Grian wouldn't know anything abt that.

Fun fact, even tho I don't include it, its where I got the parent/abandonment issues from.

Xelqua has definitely seen this version (i haven't seen YHS since i was 16, i don't remember it well ^____^ )

[i-may-be-an-emu]

The way that Tom looks at them heals something in me that I didn’t know was so broken. Or something, idk.

[the-magpie-archives]

I gotta be honest if some random guy approached me in the street and asked me to tell him my paranormal trauma I'd literally just tell him? Like he wouldn't have to compel me I'd like to share. Free therapy for me, free story for him! Not my problem if it feeds an otherworldly overlord.

[greyhavensking]

season 1 episode 8 flint you will always be famous

+ bonus john “little shit” silver destroying lives and winning hearts

“had to be done”

[caycanteven]

I drew this instead of eepin, because I got dragged back into the mafia verse (i could never run from the mafiaverse in the first place, thanks for the reminder Mothie lmfao) so now you guys get this delicious midnight snack.

Maybe I'll do a fun lil story to play on his character some hehehehehe

[whollyjoly]

hot in the day, hot in the night, hot as the coal coming to tread, light on your bed, here we go oh, listen whistle roll (baby the, the sun is getting low)

the bucktommy cowboy au nobody asked for part two (part one) (part three)

(song insp.)

[sunnykeysmash]

ok why isn't everybody else freaking the fuck out about this

bro that's sunny's cameraman (hi bestie love u)

[the-phantom-peach]

i’m being a big girl about it okay

anyways, small important message in tags ⬇️

[anomura]

gale's past and family history is very interesting to explore but deadass what about john he went to an all-male catholic college!!! got no letters from any of his family!! had sisters!!! and never talked about them!! even when gale was opening up about his father john never said anything about his own and isn't that telling?

[marzipanandminutiae]

Not sure if you are on twitter too so I am not sure if you heard, but the Uglies movie will come to Netflix this year 13th September. God, I hope so much it is just as good as the books...

Interesting! I wonder how they're going to do some parts of it, like the fact that the characters all have to be within a specific, very narrow range of skin tones- at least, the Pretty ones who aren't allowed to be very light- or dark-skinned, but I'm willing to bet the Ugly characters shouldn't look totally one race or another either after so many years of genetic intermingling.

There's also going to be a lot of CGI involved in the Pretties, if they do it right. We're not just talking supermodel- one whole point is that it's a very specific template of beauty. I guess a few Natural Pretties who lived after photography but during the before-times are mentioned, so those could give us an idea, including Lillian Russell:

and Rudolph Valentino:

there's also a "Denzel" mentioned, but I have no idea who that's about. Denzel Washington hardly looks the part, IMO. maybe when he was younger, I guess?

(others, like Cleopatra and Nefertiti, seem to just be people who were famous for their beauty since nobody can really conclusively say what they looked like. it's also kind of ironic- nobody alive at that point saw Russell or Valentino in person, and they maybe don't realize- or care -that photo editing existed back then. so it's possible they weren't as Pretty as everyone thinks, IRL)

And to have the appropriate contrast after the operation, they're going to have to make the actors look very different. So I'm curious to see how that will go down.

I guess we'll see! Gods, it's so weird to be getting an adaptation of that after all this time- I remember first reading those books when I was like 11. Specials hadn't even come out yet.