Greetings, thy faithful worshippers, and welcome to the Hidden Depths AU Blog.
Hidden Depths is a Hatchetfield AU on Archive of Our Own, where five very different, and even moreso inexperienced, Lords in Black attempt to get accustomed to their new roles as gods, whilst being… “guided” by the spirits of their predecessors.
It can be read here:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
And this is an AU blog made specifically for answering questions about it, its worldbuilding, and its characters. I warn you that asks will be closed at certain intervals, but other than that, you can basically have as much fun as you want here.
Go wild! Send me your prayers!
(ask rules, glossary, and additional sideblogs can be found under the cut!)
Ask Rules
No nsfw stuff or other related not-okay things, such as hate speech
ONLY ask questions that are relevant to the AU: for everything else, I have my main blog for that
Any asks with answers that dip into spoiler territory will be deleted.
Finally, don’t expect the asks to be open at all times. But trust me, as long as I am present on the Internet, there will come a time where it will be open again.
Glossary
Normal text - Mod/Marker/whatever you wanna call me
Green text - Wiggly (anniversary event only)
Purple text - Blinky (anniversary event only)
Yellow text - Tinky (anniversary eve… yeah you get the drill)
Pink text - Nibbly
Blue text - Pokey
Anything else is probably just a one-off appearance and doesn’t warrant an addition to the glossary.
Additional Sideblogs
@markerofthemidnight (main blog)
@oneiricobservationaublog (Dreams of an Insomniac AU sideblog + OC askblog)
Ok this might be a bad time but I feel like I need to confess. You remember those times I said/implied Kindler was kinda based on Smaug? That was a lie. Kinda. At the time I thought he was but since getting fully into CR I’ve realised my real subconcious inspiration was Thordak.
ok I’m gonna admit. when I said that I wasn’t gonna cancel this fic I might’ve been wrong.
One thing I’ve learned from writing fanfic is that writing big multichapters requires a patience and an attention span that I simply don’t have. When you think about that combined with the kind of fic this is- highly self-indulgent, apathetic to the idea of canon complacency, and purposefully out of character, that is- you start to realise that it’s cancellation was kind of… inevitable, in a sense.
But under the circumstances, Hidden Depths had a good run, a very good run. None of my other multichapters ever got even close to 18 chapters published, or were so fleshed out in terms of worldbuilding and future plans. I liked writing this. But I can’t just have it sitting in the back of my mind with absolutely nothing being done with it forever.
…I think from now on I should make it official that I don’t start multichapters anymore, not unless they’re only a few chapters long. Again, it’s an undertaking that I in particular am just not prepared for. If I ever write a fic that I want to continue, I keep the original a oneshot and post the continuation as a separate fic, that way I don’t get anybody’s hopes up.
As for the future of the AU itself… well, obviously I should make a post in the near future about all the stuff that was going to happen/be revealed. And maybe I might write one last sendoff, or something? We’ll see how it goes.
Feels weird to be putting this to an end after two years of love and care… again, I suppose this was always going to happen eventually when you think about it. I don’t really feel like it all went to waste, though. People enjoyed it, despite its flaws. That’s good enough.
I guess it just goes to show that maybe there really is no such thing as an inherently bad concept.
Good news is Chapter 18 is…near completion. Or much closer to completion than it has been in the past few months (duh)
Bad news is I’ve kinda written myself into a corner because the only way to continue the conversation in a way that makes sense is for the fact that they’re actually reincarnated mortals to fly so far over Wiggly’s head that it massively breaks immersion
