How are you liking witch hat atelier??? I for one adored the art style!!
aaahhh i’m loving it!! the art style is GORGEOUS and the characters are all so sweet and well written <3 i just finished chapter 40 so i’m going a bit insane over qifrey and olruggio rn
treat!! have an excerpt from my nevermoor fic that was originally for mogtober but which i haven’t finished. it’s a 5 + 1 with five times wundersmiths added to the gossamer spun garden and one time a wundersmith began it again. the excerpt is the first part of it
Ariel Kingston
Ariel had been imagining this moment for almost a year. At first, it was a faint what-if while they were teaching one of the younger Wundersmiths, Cathaoir Corcoran, the Art of Weaving. Then, it was something that they thought of more and more often, and it became serious.
Wundersmiths hadn’t been around a long time, only about three or four generations. Almost everyone (even some Wundersmiths) still wondered if their cycle was going to be around forever, or if it was simply a short phenomenon that they were lucky to see. Ariel wanted to create something permanent. Something that would last, and show the legacy of Wundersmiths, even if they would fade into the past.
Something that would show what they had stood for.
Ariel stood in the vast chamber of Van Ophoven, a stately but empty room often used for the few formal functions and traditions the Wundersmiths hosted. Ariel remembered Emmeline Van Ophoven, a Wundersmith who’d been old when they’d been found. She’d been larger than life to that ten year old, but she’d taught them well.
She’d taught them Weaving first.
Ariel was excellent at all of the Wundrous Arts, as were all of the Wundersmiths (except Cathaoir Corcoran, but he’d come along. After all, they were only nine), but they especially delighted in Weaving.
Ariel started with flowers, magnificent magnolias and sunflowers rising high. With them, Weaving was a dance, a joyful, ever-evolving one like the ones that swept through the city on Morningtide. From their fingers sprung roses, dahlias, and the carnivorous white pitcher plants (which they’d been taken with as a child), fully grown and in full bloom.
Next, they moved onto the trees they’d always imagined after hearing folk tales by the fire, before he was brought to the Wundrous Society. Starting as small sprouts, they led them up towards the ceiling with his fingers, as elegantly as a conductor of an orchestra. The trees were silver and gold, with leaves that changed color when Ariel tilted their head.
For the last piece of their plan, they walked around the beginnings of the garden, and where their feet stepped, stepping stones were left. They shimmered like stained glass, but were as hard as diamond.
As Ariel left Van Ophoven, they looked over their shoulder with a smile. They’d have to show Cathaoir soon. The kid loved plants, and would probably delight in being able to practice in a place that felt fun, and, most importantly, comfortable.
I don’t think I’ve heard of your oc Piper Gunther before unless I’ve missed something crucial. Are they new are they fun what’s their deal?
aaaahhhh!!! piper is a couple months old as a character, a teenager in universe (paz feigenbaum and pia gunther are older names she’s had). she’s the main character of road trip to ardaris, a story i’m writing about four lesbians and piper’s little brother who go on a road trip to sacrifice piper so she can be a superweapon. there’s a hidden magical world and dyke drama. reyes alonso luna, uehara yuuki, thandiwe duma, and simon gunther are also from road trip to ardaris.
piper’s whole deal is that she’s spent most of her life trying very hard to be liked and be in control of how people perceive her and her situation in the world. when she finds out that she can be the vessel for a superweapon (ardaris), she’s excited! she thinks that she’ll then have so much power that no one will be able to affect her again if she doesn’t let them. her arc is letting go of that mindset (aka the idea that if she’s not in control, she’s going to be hurt) and beginning to trust people and have healthy open relationships with people. eventually, when they get to ardaris, she destroys it instead of letting it possess her.
Hi hope you are doing well! I just wanted to ask how the op reading was going? If you’ve read anymore?
omg i have been READING. currently i’m just starting punk hazard!! i was into it before marineford, but since i started marineford i have been zooming through it