#sneaky spy

[mysteryteacup]

For those wondering how Sneaky Spy is going: I'm learning things.

19th-century author Charles Mackay proposed in The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe (1877) that the seemingly meaningless string of syllables "Fa fe fi fo fum" is actually a coherent phrase of ancient Gaelic, and that the complete quatrain covertly expresses the Celts' cultural detestation of the invading Angles and Saxons: Fa from faich (fa!) "behold!" or "see!" Fe from Fiadh (fee-a) "food"; Fi from fiú "good to eat" Fo from fogh (fó) "sufficient" and Fum from feum "hunger". Thus "Fa fe fi fo fum!" becomes "Behold food, good to eat, sufficient for my hunger!

I am not sure I believe Mackay's theory, but I am also now firmly on the Giant's side in Jack and the Beanstalk.

Also? "Covertly"? Mackay, the next fucking line is "I smell the blood of an Englishman"!

[suffertimeless]

same team sniperspy?

I just wanted to do a little sketch but I got carried away xD

Hope u like it!!

Spy reminded me of a little cat in this drawing so I just did that too:

Meow

[mysteryteacup]

I haven't actually written anything yet, but as a minor miracle I have opened the Scrivenr doc for Sneaky Spy and done some organising of notes/scenes for the next chapter.

[mysteryteacup]

Due to irl stuff I am once again without the energy to work on Sneaky Spy.

So I'm working on Everyone Is Jon instead (not about grief + not needing to do cultural research for sensitivity + uncomplicated plot = less effort).

And. Look. The thing about Lovecraftian eldritch abominations is that they're supposed to be scary because they're incomprehensible. But in Lovecraft's own damn canon we have full on family trees and in the expansions by people like Derleth we've got them neatly plugged into a neat and tidy four classical elements system. And that's just. Not Scary.

Cthulhu's Nyarlathotep's great-grandnephew? Hastur's Cthulhu's half-brother? And possibly dating Cthulhu's grandma who is also Nyarlathotep's niece?

That's a fucking sitcom.

[mysteryteacup]

Guess who FINALLY managed to update Sneaky Spy.

Yes.

Really.

Chapter 31 is up on AO3.

Only took me five fucking months.

(Not going to put the link up cause I'm not sure if that's how those spam bots found my locked fics a while back.)

[mysteryteacup]

I am so fucking relieved to say: I only have ONE SCENE left to write of this chapter and then I can FINALLY update Sneaky Spy. And I know EXACTLY what has to go into that scene!

...But it's two in the morning so I'm NOT doing that tonight!

[mysteryteacup]

I swear I am working on Sneaky Spy! The proof?

Loki + Sun with anyone else: wise old masters.

Loki + Sun just the two of them: absolute dumbasses

[mysteryteacup]

it's amazign how much writer's block you can get from knowing you're only a scene and a half away from finishing a chapter in the first time in five months. 🙃