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[elsewhereuniversity]

ASKS - Mini Stories/Headcanons/Ideas

Little ask-stories sent to my main blog, posted here!

violetsnowstorm555 said: Archaeology majors agree never to dig anywhere near campus for fear of what might come up.

Anon said: What about that one kid who thinks the fair folk are actually ALIENS

k4t3yk4t said: There was that one occasion with the Vegan™ freshman who discovered the black fur coat in her roommate's closet. She was so appalled... She stole it, not to keep, but to confront her roommate later about. She never got the chance to. She wasn't seen for months, but eventually came back. She was different, when she did, though.. And never went near the pool again.

unicorn-aly said: The Girl With The Eye Tattoo on The Back Of Her Neck™; To always be kind to That One Janitor; don't pass that broom closet unless it's a life or death situation (and even then run as fast as you can); to say your purpose and you mean no harm when you enter That Room; leave exactly 9 cups of vanilla creamer under that tree; don't step on the tiny hills lest your head should face the opposite way for the rest of your life; never ever EVER pick up and keep the things you find in the mini garden 2/3

(I can’t find the other two asks connected to this which is a tragedy bc this fragment is a Gem)

chaoswolf1982 said: I am sooooo tempted to headcanon that EU is one of the places where citizens from Night Vale attend for higher education, but due to NV's own innate weirdnesses, those who've attended find absolutely nothing unusual or strange about the place, it being equivalent to them as being a quiet and plain small-town college. A good math program, decent arts scholarship, but nothing particularly stands out about it.

scarymaryanne said: OHMYGOD I'm in love with Elsewhere Uni! Just thinking about the RAs and how far they are willing/allowed to go to keep their students from getting nabbed. Like a rota for who rings the bells at dawn and dusk and no one will ever skip that duty, not again. And watching for signs of who might get taken. You can't foil them all the time cos they get mad but that tiny dance major on your floor is TOO fragile to revel with the Gentry and you will camp outside their door with salt and iron and the RAs who go in at the end of the year to get back those who were taken spend all year hoarding favours and gifts to use to get people out. They keep the crows sweet because while they would never, ever spy on the Fair Folk they've been known to drop tidbits of information and gossip that come in handy. They're the silver tongued English and Poli-sci majors who know exactly how to wheedle those who were taken back home

thecommrade said: EU idea. That one kid that everything seems to revolve around them. Are they the ring master? Are they a fae? Do they have forbidden dark magic? Nobody really knows. They're honestly too crazy to get a straight answers from them. Its always some cryptic poem of nonsense.

themarginalthinker said: They slide their notebook towards you. "I won't bite, promise!" You look down at the offering, the bullet points and neatly written summaries of the professor's lecture. Though sleep-deprived you are, pull away, sudden sickening realization of what you've done. They're smiling again, and there's something pinched between their fingers - a single hair. You'd taken their offer. They took their due. You don't acknowledge them day after next. Their eyes don't match. You know that hair color. You try to get your bearings on what's going on in class, not paying a whole lot of attention to the new student. Who is paying a lot of attention to you. "Bad week, huh?" They ask. You nod absently, suddenly realizing you don't know anyone really well in this class enough to ask for notes. Damn it..."Want to see mine?" The new student asks. You look over, finally - they seem friendly enough, an why not. Their eyes do not match. "Um..." You hesitate. They smile and /their eyes do not match/.

roseverdict said: headcanon: EU's school song rings a little longer, a bit louder, at home games. and in dorms. and honestly it's always playing just out of hearing range for the upperclassmen but the freshmen are freaking out that there's the song aLWAYS GOING-

solongraggedydoctor said: Elsewhere university. Their are three distinct types of non believers who attend. All three arrive unaware of the far world type 1) rapidly changes their views on the world, and accept and believe. Type 2) they willingly follow the rules, as they've seen what happens otherwise, but they say they don't believe, if just so if it turns out to be a joke they don't look stupid, they get got a few times. Type 3) they outright deny, and oddly, no matter what they do, nothing happens ... And oddly, no matter what they do, nothing ever happens to them. They show disrespect, follow none of the fae rules, and are still left alone, but then, towards the end of their final year, they kinda just seem to disappear, and no one really seems to remember where they went, and even years after the fact, no one you know has had any kind of contact with type 3, other than rumours that they moved away, and did something unnoteworthy. 

las-lus said: About elsewhere university: Kids who dont notice time running slower because "fuck, isnt this how it usually runs in calculus' class?". Kids who Starr drawing weird shit on their notebooks and their friends dont know if its from that weird geometry class, if they started a new drawing style of If they've been abducted. Im majoring in physics and really I cant stop thinking How hard would It be for us to notice If our friends had been taken

kass-king-of-sass said: Hi, just wanted to say your stuff for elsewhere university is amazing. I don't know if you're still accepting stuff and I've never submitted an ask like this before but here goes. I've been imagining mischievous or angered fae living in residence halls and playing tricks on the inhabitants. Pulling the fire alarm at 2 am, locking people out of their rooms, messing with the thermostats, burning food in the microwaves, things like that. All the hallmarks of a bad roommate but with a fae twist.

Anon said: There are certain alleys on campus that, on some nights, lead to faerie pavilions. If you bring them an offering, the fair folk will let you dance with them and will not harm you as long as you don't eat the food and leave before dawn.

Anon said: Oh, oh! I'm an interior design/architect student! Just imagining all the little tricks of the eyes that you could learn from the fae and then implement in human design is so exciting!

Anon said: sorry im sure youre getting a veritable INFLUX these days but imagine: student at Elsewhere whose parents' expectations have guided them into med/law/some other 'esteemed' course but theyre secretly into/good at art or singing or something. the fae would have such good sport luring them away after they sang under their breath in the wrong part of campus or one of their pages of doodling got blown in the breeze out of the window :3:3

Anon said: A freshman who lives off campus in her own apartment but Knows more than any other freshman or off campus student. She smiles and speaks carefully eyes always watching she goes by a name that's familiar to some until one night at a party she challenges one of Them to a game of 21. She drops 2 pictures on the table one of 2 girls a younger her and dark haired girl with a duffle bag in her hands and the other is of the dark haired girl with a boy who has empty eyes. "I want to see my sister again"

Anon said: In the end, it turns out she was never any different from you. She just happens to be from Iceland, just happened to have grown up with Gentry in her garden and the sea in her back yard. The one place where one lives with Them in the mountains, the one place where even the government respect Them. She never needed salt, she had hemmed her skirts with rocks and painted her nails with volcanic ashes. You conclude that international students can be just as foreign as the Fae (3/3)

Anon said: A student invested in geopolitics strikes a deal; "Give me the power to stop the corporate damming and I'll make sure no human ever nears the Nile". After all, the fae doesn't care whether their actions hurt the humans, and the student now posses unprecedented bargaining chip against at least four different governments

[breelandwalker]

What resources are you using to try and learn Gaelic? I've been wanting to learn Scots Gaelic for ages, but have no idea where to look for resources or a starting point. Any tips?

I’ve been working periodically with Duolingo.com and also watching native speakers on YouTube to get a more fluid idea of how the language sounds. I’m on the lookout for a dictionary as well.

[itsybittle]

k4t3yk4t replied to your post “Ok I am writing more for the daemon cp au and when I started it ages…”

=o *new to the fandom* what’s this AU we’re talking about?

Daemons are from the His Dark Materials trilogy of books, in which your soul instead of existing inside your body, lives outside of it in the form of an animal which is called a daemon.

When you are a kid your daemon is ‘unsettled’ and can change and turn into different animals, but around puberty they ‘settle’ into the form of the animal that best represents your inner self and it never changes again.

Hope this makes sense! You can find more if you google it =)

[upthehillart]

k4t3yk4t

replied to your post

“I often see ppl commenting about the fact that you draw Harry with...”

There's literally nothing in the books that says Harry (or Hermione for that matter) are white. The Potters may be an old family, but the wizarding community has never really been much for racial superiority (amongst themselves) see: blaise zabini

It's not about racial superiority, it's merely about the fact that the majority of population in the United Kingdom is white and has always been :) Zabinis make sense because the origin of their surname isn’t English from what I’ve researched, so it’s fairly safe to assume it’s not a family of English ancestry. Besides, we barely know anything about this family, we don't know their history, we cannot be sure about where they come from :) Meanwhile, both Peverell and Potter are surnames of English origin. We know that these families lived in Britain since medieval times, so it’s very much likely they’re all white. But yes, I suppose it’s still open for interpretation because I don’t think the Potters were ever actually described as white in the books. Still, in my opinion, it’s more due to the fact that white writers tend to simply not describe the skin color of other white characters--an example of white normativity :) It’s not always the case obviously, but one’s skin tone tends to be explicitly relevant only when it’s not white, unfortunately :) Which is why I draw Harry as POC in the first place! To go against white normativity in media, at least one tiny step at a time! ^^ But I still appreciate the juxtaposition that Rowling created between two rich ancient pureblood white families: the Potters vs the Malfoys :)

[breelandwalker]

Hey Bree, I want to learn about curses and hexes without actually practising them. Is there a way to do that safely without mixing up the bad mojo attributed to them? I read a post awhile ago about how even if you don't use it, you should learn as a preventive measure, and completely agree. Since you're the only witch on my dash who does curses, I figured I'd ask...

Baneful magic can be safely researched without performing it. The method is pretty much what you’d use for most other types of magic. Read up on it, ask questions of people who practice it (if you’re so inclined), take notes, study the materials and the theory involved, maybe even write one of your own just for practice.

As for “doing curses,” I am very curse-positive (meaning that I believe the choice of whether or not to use baneful magic lies with the individual and not with a greater universal moral code…because there is no such thing as a universal moral). I have written quite a number of curses, hexes, and baneful spells.

And I can still count on one hand the number of times I have actually stuffed someone’s name in a jar purely for the purpose of causing them harm.

Just as you can study medicine for years without ever performing surgery or writing a prescription, you can study cursing and baneful magics all you want without ever slinging a hex.

[lokeanwelcomingcommittee]

What do you mean when you put SPG in your posts?

Hi Kate,

SPG stands for Shared Personal Gnosis.

Knowledge you’ve gained about a deity through mystical insight that isn’t (and perhaps can’t be) verified by the lore is known as UPG, Unverified Personal Gnosis. For example, some people hold the belief that Odin orders Loki to kill Baldr, or that Loki is a god of fire.

When a few people share the same UPG, it becomes SPG.

Everyone has their own UPG, but it’s important to remember that not everyone will agree with it. UPG shouldn’t be presented as if it were historical belief, and, as long as someone else’s belief isn’t actively harmful to the community (e.g., “I believe the Norse gods hate POC!”) then you shouldn’t put others down for not sharing your views. After all, no matter how strongly you believe your own gnosis, it still isn’t verifiable to others.

We have a glossary of common terms that tend to trip people up in our FAQ, so check that out if you’re ever confused.

-Mod E

[ghost-nettle]

Hi, so I was curious about your self-identification as a shapeshifter? I don't want to pry if it's personal, but could you explain?

Not at all :) I use the term shapeshifter in reference to my energy body being unstable and “malleable” more so than most people I meet. It means that I can separate my energy body from my physical body and make it take on different shapes. It’s similar to astral travel but I don’t believe I am visiting another plane of existence, it is a space outside of my physical body but still within my reality. I use this skill to communicate with Plant Spirits and have begun to expand to dealing with local nature spirits as well. 

It’s a lot of UPG tbh, but it is very important to my identification. I often feel my energy body taking on different forms even when not in a trance meditation. (i.e: a sort of ghost limb sensation with wings or teeth or claws and scales). I know there are indigenous people who use shapeshifting for spiritual healing or ancestor communication but I am non-native so I definitely try to keep my stuff separate from theirs. 

[rejectedprincesses]

Have you done any research or writing on Tomoe Gozen? 12c warrior from Japan?

Yep, but haven’t done a full entry yet. She may be one for the book. I will say that if you’re looking for info on her, I recommend the book Heroic with Grace by Chieko Irie Mulhern. Also covers Masako Hojo, Empress Jingu, Murasaki Shikibu, and a lot of other notable Japanese women at great length.