[ayellowchip]

we need more OTNWAS art in the internet!!!

[intergalaxis]

a tribute to otnwas <3

@jjackfrost 's fanfic, Of The Northmost Winds And Skies

[meltesh28]

Part 2 || Part 3

Hi everyone I made another... otnwas storyboard... I just really love this story okay

@jjackfrost I can never thank you enough for writing this 😭

credits:

Jack and Hiccup - @santathegrey

Snow Queen - @khaotiklly

Emily - Keeb

Jamie, Brant and Undis - @vindikaetion

[kescalis]

So, this is a bit of a different post from me haha. My dear friend @gayhorse3000 (and me) were really into that one hijack fanfic "Of the Northmost Winds and Skies" by @jjackfrost that recently blew up again (It's really good, go read it if you're interested) and I decided to make her a little rotating standee as a birthday gift (the photo I took is a bit crusty)

[jjackfrost]

I can't believe it, asdfghjkl! Are you the author of OTNWAS? I think I'm about to have a heart attack at any moment. I have so many questions I'd love to ask, if you're able to answer any of them.

But first... what else can you tell us about The Snow Queen?

ajfjdkh

honestly nothing more than what already is learned in the fic, as far as i can recall. if there was anything else at least i cant remember it, it has been a hot second lol

[jjackfrost]

hiii sorry if this bothers you but do you think you'll revisit hijack writing-wise again? i only ask because i LOVED otnwas so much, it was probably my favorite hijack fic ever when i first read it and it still is now on a reread <3

many ideas floating around but i dont think that it is something that will see the light of day anytime soon. thank you so much though!

[eightdoctor]

posts with fake songs i can imagine so perfectly it’s like they were real

[staarbles]

⋆.ೃ࿔☁️ ݁ ˖*༄ Taking to the Skies ⋆.ೃ࿔☁️ ݁ ˖*༄

---------⋆.ೃ࿔☁️ ݁ ˖*༄---------

i've been wanting to make something for these two since february AAAAHHH-- i was already in the crossover pit for a long while, but for these two? ooohohoho if there's anything i can say, @jjackfrost's "Of The Northmost Winds and Skies" fic absolutely changed me. it's sooooo well written, i adore how on point the characters are, and augh, the worldbuilding and story!! it's so so good. it made me binge read through an evening following to the entire day the following day (it's rotg 2 in my heart).

[alt versions under the cut! bc i had too much fun i played around with things]

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[berkgessthorne]

My favorite Uðr sketch I’ve done

If I can even get close to replicating this, I will be very proud of myself

[berkgessthorne]

You might be looking at this and thinking “James, what the fuck is this?” And that is valid. This looks like everything and nothing all at once.

Really my only explanation is this: the best way to improve at art is to get incredibly, absurdly, and abnormally obsessed with something.

…Anyway do you guys like the gay little tapestry drawing I did for shits and gigs right at the end there? I kinda wanna make it a bookmark! It’s cute!

[frailgun]

an unsung favorite of mine

[jjackfrost]

So I recently finished otnwas (my treat after finishing finals), and because I’m a crazy person I’m now listening to SANTAtheGREY’s podfic of it—and I’m just so curious, when did you start constructing the overall plot of the fic? Because I know it started as a sick fic, but even a few chapters in there are so many threads being weaved in together. Even the very first chapter has SO MUCH setup for the conclusion (I must commend you for the cyclical storytelling because it is s a t i s f y i n g).

Did you sit down one day and begin to create an overall outline during those first few chapters or did it just keep progressing more organically as you went from chapter to chapter? And AHHH, the title ties directly into the conclusion too, so how did that come into play despite it starting out as a sick fic? Was the ending inspired by the title or was the title still somehow inspired by the ending?

Thank you so much for this piece of work, by the way! It’s been a crazy distraction, but I’ve also been thoroughly enjoying having something to obsess over this last month. Never in my life did I think I’d get into Hijack, but damnit, you’ve converted me. Your writing is gorgeous, and especially chapter 28 meant a lot to me; it’s absolutely beautiful.

i had a vague outline but mostly i planned it chapter by chapter. they way it came together by the end was a result of the two, i think—some was a happy coincidence, some was planned. the ending was inspired by the title, which i think came together around like halfway through writing it, when i had a sort of ‘ive connected the dots’ moments. like. i dont remember exactly how i got the idea, but i imagine it must have been like, im rereading the first chapter and i suddenly look up and go, oh my god. the wind is a friend of his.

idk if its like disappointing(??) to hear that the twist wasnt planned from the start agwjdkfksj but yeah it was planned from like midway ish. for the longest time i was stressing out because i couldnt imagine how to give them a happy ending so i thought sad ending was the only way lol. close call

[jjackfrost]

what's up xxiiyu!

so, OTNWAS. masterclass in modern literature. sure it goes without saying but I'm still gonna

anyways, if you don't mind me asking, are there any pivotal scenes or lines that looked totally different at first or ended up being cut? always been super curious as to what those original drafts looked like!

HI sorry for taking so long to respond

honestly i have really bad memory and theres so much of the fic as it is that i can barely remember lol. the one thing that comes to mind is that when jack tells jamie about how he died, he explained it in a sort of flat way originally—like he didnt really get into it and there wasnt such a bonding moment between the two of them. one of my friends who beta read that chapter told me she wished the scene was more emotional so i changed it, and i think she was right!

also a maybe big thing is that originally while i was planning the fic it was going to be rotbfd but then i settled on just hijack at some point lol. and the biggest thing is probably that it was supposed to be a sic-fic one shot, it just went off the rails a little

if i find my old computer theres probably some planning notes and old drafts to be found lol but im extrememy disorganized so they might be lost (i write a lot in notebooks too and theres just no system lol It’s Bad) but itd be fun to look back on and collect some of it if i do find them. make a sort of behind the scenes kinda thing for those who are interested haha

also if i reread (which is in my plans but. long fic) i might recall some things but yeah

[jjackfrost]

Are you still writing? :0

in theory!!

i have many projects and i write a lot of casual stuff (rn im adapting dnd campaign stuff to a novel lol) but not anything that feels like I Am Writing Seriously you know? so my gut instinct is to say, no ive fallen off, but Technically i am using the skill of writing so. im gonna say yes, be kind to yourself

[charl0ttan]

does anyone have the foggiest

[amygdalae]

haven't. fresh out of the faintest as well

[marsbotz]

at the insane stage of character obsession where i start getting the urge to post pngs of them every five seconds like im showing ppl a picture of my stupid ass boyfriend that nobody likes but me

[cliffsecord]