You could make a really cool cottagecore fantasy novel using the structure of Little House in the Big Woods. Where the main characters live in a stable environment and go about their daily lives dealing with the domestic details of the world, but they meet characters who have gone on adventures. So a huge chunk of the book is made up of the stories that these characters tell. The main characters would face very little peril, but you'd still have a book full of thrilling stories.
I'd try for a middle-grade fantasy. Center it on a group of siblings whose parents went on save-the-world adventures, but have settled down to raise a family. Maybe they run an inn that caters to people from a ton of the nations and races of this fantasy world. Or maybe they're just frequently visited by old adventuring companions who always have cool stories to share about the adventures they've been on or the events or history of their homeland.
Would Nora or Pastel fit in place of Dipper in this image better?
Which one is more… whatever energy this is? XD
LMAO. that's a hard one,,,would have to say Pastel SPECIFICALLY between UTL and the movie. he would burn something down between that timeframe. also what is dipper even doing there,,i would make a joke about him summoning a demon but that's probably EXACTLY what he's doing from what i remember of the show
also i went into this expecting to draw one of them as mabel,,,and then i didn't
this kind of made me realize i just like putting nora in hats. i should put him in hats more
Important: Moash/Szeth vs Moash/Venli vs Venli/Szeth
dhhfkljfjdjfhhdg let it never be said, anon, that you don't know your audience. When it comes to shipping my Best Boy, my Other Best Boy, and my Best Girl, my brutally honest opinion as per ask game is that none of these ships really work until we get like six degrees of separation from canon. And even then they can kind of feel like stretches. Their common throughline is their mutual penchant for destruction (although Moash BARELY qualifies for that) and the fact that I love them. Which sadly is not enough to make them compatible. I think that these three are great to pair up if you just want to have them cause problems together, but I don't buy them as actual relationships in any combination. Moash/Szeth/Venli KIND of works for me as a trio (it has an advantage over the others that we'll get to when discussing Moash/Venli) but if I'm being honest, I like them more as a heist crew than as a polycule.
But by god if I'm not going to try to make these ships work anyway.
Moash/Szeth
I'm sorry, these two are not compatible as a pairing. Szeth would not be even slightly interested in Moash unless they were thrown together by circumstance. And Moash would not have the patience for someone like Szeth. He might like the idea of him in theory, but in practice I think Moash prefers people who he could hold conversations with. Szeth is the most dramatic, edgy, pretentious person on the planet, and Moash is Some Guy. Neither would really be sympathetic to the other's problems and outlooks, but neither would be so worked up about it that they'd want to fix the other. I definitely could contrive of plenty of situations in which they're put together and have to interact a lot, and feelings blossom. But I think for me this ship kind of only makes sense if it's based in literal attraction. Moash is into Szeth because he's cool and dangerous and regicidal, and he keeps trying to hang out with him. Szeth is like "maybe if I just fuck him once, he'll be satisfied and go away." Moash doesn't really know what he's doing (I know that I'm probably declaring war on all other Moash enjoyers when I say that—anyway see endnote) and this ship turns into "Moash Learns Sex Ed From the Assassin in White." There you go, this is my honest take. (Moash would love Nightblood though. So maybe he's pursuing Szeth because he wants to coparent his swordchild.)
Moash/Venli
I have thought about these two before. I have tried to make it work in my head. They sure seem like they have a lot in common, traitors to their own kind, trapped under Odium's thumb, miserable and alone. It probably would have been very cool if they'd actually gotten to go anything together. I can imagine them having been given a very compelling arc in the universe where the books didn't become bored with them both, and still cared about them as people. But I think my true to canon read of them is that they would have zero chemistry. They wouldn't hate each other or anything. Nor would they like each other. Put them in a room together, they talk about the weather and then one of them mentions that they really should be getting along. THAT BEING SAID, I do think that you could get some sparks to fly if you turn them into a throuple. Throw Leshwi in there, and you could some sniping and hateflirting out of them as they compete for her attention. Or try El, maybe Venli is too sensible for his advances until Moash is also in the picture to make her jealous. Szeth? Utterly unhinged, you would have to be this specific anon or me in order to seriously consider Venli/Szeth/Moash, but I like the idea of them both trying to pull him along as their partner in crime for their respective agendas and ambitions, almost in tug of war fashion, and then ending up pulling one another along as well. They need a third, but once they have one I do think they could be fun.
Venli/Szeth
This ship could go two ways for me, they could be evil or chill. If they're evil, the relationship would be a lot of Venli bossing Szeth around while also envying his infamy. They would Get Shit Done. They actually make for a pretty terrifying power couple, but Szeth is always the one people fear and respect, Venli's contributions are always downplayed. The famous Assassin in White. Why does that get to be his thing? In listener culture, all assassins are supposed to wear white, her people were the ones who gave him those clothes in the first place! Szeth will remind her that he does not enjoy his fame, and he would be perfectly content to be forgotten. In fact if she derives no pleasure from their exploits, then he would be happy to stop at any time. Venli isn't finished yet, she will be recognized, and Szeth is going to help her. They would kind of hate each other but Venli would get off on the feeling of power she gets from the relationship, and Szeth would enjoy being with her as a form of self-harm. They'd be really awful together. Hmmmm I'm kind of selling myself on this.
The chill version would involve them meeting up after they've both broadly decided that they don't want to be terrible anymore. They would sit on a couch sharing a tub of ice cream, and they'd trade stories of all the horrible things they've done. They sort of nod along to one another and say "yeah that's fucked up, you are a bad person." It would be kind of comforting to see that there's another former monster out there, and that they've found reasons to keep living. Their relationship would be pretty low-key, they wouldn't be joined at the hip or anything, but they'd come home in the evening and talk about their days. Szeth will have cleaned the place up and made dinner, Venli would hum to Peace which Szeth doesn't understand but which does help a little with the screams, it's all very domestic. When they're in a room with other people, they could have private conversations in one of Szeth's ten languages and trade comments and observations with each other that no one else can understand. People assume they're scheming, but making everyone nervous while discussing grocery lists is about as cruel as these two retired problems-causers are willing to be these days. They would be very understated in how they demonstrate affection, but they'd be fond of each other.
In either scenario, the aesthetic is kind of great. Smooth little tiny guy X big spiky woman who's twice his height, what's not to love. Venli would hide behind Szeth in a fight, and Szeth would hide behind Venli in a medium stakes social interaction. And you know what. I have never before managed to come up with a Venli ship I liked, but I think I don't hate this one? I guess it wins.
Endnote: I'm going to make myself a pariah among Moash stans here, and say that I don't think he's a sexual force of nature. He's a vorin guy who's maybe slept with a few women in his travels. I certainly don't think he's ever been with other men (well, not until his very canonical relationship with El.) He's definitely bi, but if he had known he was into men then we would have seen him taking his shot with Kaladin. Moash isn't the type to play it cool, and he's not that subtle of a person.
Walked into my local FNAC (not fnaf) store today and! Look who I found! For Eclipse I'm officially only missing the YouTooz vinyl figure (already own the plush)!!!
Yes I had my action figure with me. I bring them to work with me! Here's them with a cleaning product:
