Side Hilda blog where I post my Hilda related art, fics, apparently a whole bunch of incorrect quotes (don’t ask why or if it will happen again, I have no clue) and any other random, vaguely Hilda related stuff.
Sketchbook shipper because Kaisa and Johanna deserve all the good things.
You may think you know this story, Hilda and Frida fighting their way through a labyrinth with the help of the librarian, but this is not the familiar tale you remember. How do things change when Johanna is instead the librarian, and Kaisa is the one who raised Hilda?
A rewrite of The Witch but it's the mum swap AU.
AO3 Link
The mum swap AU belongs to @calebs-hangout-corner! I have no idea how much of this matches the canon because this fic is from almost a year ago! I found it while going through my notes app and got encouraged to post it
Hilda and Frida hid behind a cart full of books as they watched the librarian approach three women sitting at a very tall table. When none of the three made any move to speak, the librarian took a step forward, earnest expression on her face.
“Honoured Council, does you calling me here today mean you’ve reconsidered my request?”
Her tone was so pleading, so vulnerable, that the three women - the council, Hilda guessed - shared matching looks of pity before they schooled their faces into stern expressions.
“Unfortunately not Johanna. We have called you here for a separate matter entirely. 29 years, 364 days and 22 hours ago, The Skeleton Whisperer was checked out. As the Keeper- sorry, the librarian, after 30 years the responsibility for the missing book passes to you.”
A book floated off the cart and towards the council as the woman on the left waved her wand shaped like a rose. Or maybe it was a rose, Hilda couldn’t tell from where she was hiding. She was so entranced by the show of magic Frida had to pull her down so they wouldn’t be seen.
“But I wasn’t even the librarian then! That was-”
Johanna’s protests died off and the council members were all looking sympathetic again. Hilda didn’t know what was going on, but she intended to find out. If it weren’t for Frida’s hand on her arm keeping her down, she would have already jumped out.
“We understand, and as a non-witch, we can’t throw you into the Void of No Return, but we would have to fire you. Do you have the card with you?”
Johanna nodded and reached into her pocket, only to find it was empty.
“I swore I had it in here, maybe the other one?”
Her checking got more frantic until Frida jumped out from behind the cart waving the card, dragging Hilda out with her.
“It says Pilqfvist! M. Pilqvist!”
Johanna turned towards them as the council reeled back in shock.
“Hilda? Frida? What are you two doing here?”
As Hilda took a deep breath to tell her the whole long story, the middle witch cut her off.
“It doesn’t matter what they’re doing here! Non-witches! In the Witches Tower! It’s unheard of!”
Johanna crossed her arms and turned back to the council with a huff.
“I’m a non-witch, and you called me here. And I come here with some regularity. So I wouldn’t say it’s ‘unheard of’.”
The middle witch was about to say something else when the witch on the left cut her off.
“Well you were always a special case Johanna,” the witch smiled. “But the point remains that the clock is ticking and these two followed you here. Luckily for you, we know where you can find Matilda Pilqvist.”
Johanna smiled back up at the witch as Hilda and Frida went to stand beside her, handing her the card as they did so.
“Thank you Abigail,” she said with a sigh of relief. “Is it nearby? I won’t be able to open any portals to get there if it’s not.”
All three witches winced before Abigail waved her wand. Nothing happened for a few seconds before a different wand came zooming into the room. Abigail floated down onto the floor as she took hold of it, drawing a rectangle in the air while chanting. Once the shape was complete, she stepped back as a door materialised and placed the wand in, turning it like a doorknob. Turning, she faced Johanna with a somber expression.
“Through this door is the labyrinth of Arch-Sorceress Matilda Pilqvist. She’s… not one for visitors. I wish you the best of luck. You… you’ll need it.”
Hilda, Frida, and Johanna all looked at each other and nodded. In sync, they all stepped through the door.
~
“Ok, I think this should be the last room,” Johanna remarked, glancing up from the map that Frida had managed to find. They stepped through to see a frozen wasteland, making them all shiver.
“I bet we’re going to have to fight a snow or ice monster in here!” Hilda exclaimed excitedly. As soon as the words left her mouth, a burst of steam shot up from the ground. A monster made of lava and molten rock stepped out of the steam and roared, spraying lava everywhere.
“RUN FOR THE DOOR!”
It didn’t matter who shouted, they all jumped into action. Hilda and Frida ran around each side and Johanna slid underneath the monster. Once they were all on the other side, they slammed the door shut and took a moment to catch their breaths.
Straightening, they took in their surroundings. They were in a pitch black room, no end to the expanse, only one other door. Cautiously Hilda placed a hand on the handle and turned it. Behind the door was not a castle, like Frida was picturing, or a spooky dungeon like Hilda was, but instead a place very familiar to Johanna. As the younger two entered, there was a voice coming from an armchair in the corner.
“Oh look Cornelius! We have visitors!”
As an old lady rose out of the chair and floated over to the girls, Johanna, still outside the doorway, spoke, voice so quiet it was barely a whisper.
“Tildy?”
Tildy’s head snapped towards Johanna, who had tears pooling her eyes. She flew over at speeds far faster than one would assume she would be capable of and wrapped Johanna in a hug. Johanna sobbed into her shoulder as she hugged back. Frida and Hilda turned away, feeling that this was a private moment not meant for them to witness.
“She’s goneTildy, I’ve waited 10 years and she never came back! I miss her so much it hurtsand, and-”
Johanna cut herself off with a fresh round of tears. Tildy just patted her back sadly, leading her over to the couch.
“I know dearie, I know. I miss her too. I tried to find her, but she’s blocked her magic. Short of going door to door, there’s not much we can do aside from hope she comes back.”
As Johanna sat on the couch, head in her hands, Tildy turned towards Hilda and Frida.
“Now what can I do for you two young ladies?”
Frida didn’t answer so Hilda stepped in and took the lead.
“We’re looking for a book that you checked out… uhh… 29 years, 364 days, 23 hours and 45 minutes ago. The Skeleton Whisperer?”
Tildy huffed and rolled her eyes.
“Did those three fussbudgets send you here to make me return a book? I have more important things to deal with right now, you tell them I’ll return it when I’m good and ready.”
Hilda wasn’t sure if it was magic, or just Tildy’s grandmotherly nature, but she found herself relaxing a bit. It’s not like anything life threatening was at stake, right?
“But if we don’t get this book returned in time, Johanna will lose her job!”
The sense of urgency returned to Hilda at Frida’s words, and she started looking around for where the book might be.
“Oh dear, that is a problem! Well it can’t have gone far, we can look for it together. I’ll go get my crossbow!”
Hilda watched as Cornelius munched on a ball of yarn that was lying on the ground and got an idea.
“Tildy?” She called. “Is there any way your familiar might have the book?”
Tildy and Frida both turned to look at Cornelius as Tildy floated over.
“Cornelius? What’s that in your mouth?”
Tildy grabbed Cornelius as he tried to slowly shuffle away, making him spit out the wide variety of stuff he had swallowed, including the book which Frida quickly found. Tildy turned to Johanna and took her hand.
“Are you ready to go dear? There’s no rush.”
Frida covered Hilda’s mouth before she could point out that yes, there was a rush, but it didn’t matter as Johanna stood up, wiped her eyes, and then nodded. They all linked hands and teleported to the Council Room.
The card tower that the council was building fell abruptly as the group teleported in, though they all rushed to get back into dignified positions.
“We got the book!” Hilda yelled, waving it around for the council to see. Hilda and Frida were standing in front, Tildy beside them and Johanna behind them.
“I’m sorry, but a deadline is a deadline. You missed your chance by about 15 minutes.”
Hilda was confused and angry. They definitely had more time than that!
“I’m sorry dears. Time gets a bit… messy when you translocate like that,” Tildy apologised.
“NO!” Johanna cried. “I have to stay here! What if she comes back! I need to make sure she’s ok!”
The council shifted in place as Tildy placed a comforting hand on Johanna’s shoulder.
“I’m sorry but rules are rules. Johanna, Librarian of Trollberg City Library and The Witches Tower, Famil-”
“Oh what utter nonsense!” Tildy interrupted. “Aren’t you the slighted bit impressed that three people without magic made it through my maze, when so many seasoned witches have failed? And can’t you see one of them is a natural witch?” She added when the council shifted some more.
“Well, that is true,” the middle witch conceded.
Hilda puffed out her chest a bit in pride and Frida gave an encouraging smile.
“So, what do you say… Frida?”
Frida looked just as surprised as Hilda felt.
“Me?” She questioned. Tildy just nodded.
“Of course dear! And Hilda, you’ve got the spirit to be an invaluable familiar to Frida.”
As Frida and Hilda were celebrating their new witch-and-familiar status, Johanna stiffened behind them. With a wave of her finger, Tildy summoned her teapot, some cups, and a few board games, leaving Hilda and Frida to catch them.
“Now, time for tea and board games back at my place! It’s been so long since I’ve had anyone new to play with, Cornelius is a horrible cheat!”
Tildy grabbed Johanna’s hands and started to pull her along when Johanna stopped her.
“Girls, would you mind waiting outside for a bit? There are a few more things that The Council, Tildy and I need to discuss.”
After sharing a look, Frida and Hilda nodded and left, finding the perfect position to eavesdrop.
~
“Dear I understand you might be upset but-”
“OF COURSE I’M UPSET!” Johanna interrupted. “TILDY WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? THERE IS NO WAY THIS WILL END WELL!”
Johanna had tears streaming down her face as years of bottled up emotions came out. Abigail opened her mouth to speak but Johanna cut her off as well.
“I THOUGHT THE COUNCIL SAID I WAS THE TRIAL! WELL GUESS WHAT? THE TRIAL FAILED! THEY’RE JUST CHILDREN, WE SHOULDN’T DO THIS TO THEM!”
Johanna finally ran out of steam and sunk to the floor, overwhelmed by memories and emotion.
“We were just children,” she whispered through tears.
Tildy patted her on the back comfortingly.
“That’s the thing about children dear, they can learn from the mistakes of the past and become better for it. And you’ll be there to help them along the way, youcan help them avoid those mistakes. Now, how about we go back to my place? I think we’ve kept them waiting long enough, don’t you?”
Johanna nodded and stood up on shaky legs. Wiping her eyes, she gave Tildy a hug and they left the room together. Once they met up with Hilda and Frida, Tildy teleported them all back to set up some games.
~
“Johanna?” Hilda started. “What’s the name of the person that you’re trying to find? We’ve met a lot of people on our adventures, maybe we’ve run into her!”
Johanna stiffened a bit before relaxing and let out a low chuckle.
“Well I don’t doubt that,” she laughed. “Here, I’ll draw you a picture as well.”
Hilda nodded and took her turn in Dragon Panic. By the time it got to Johanna’s turn, she was finished.
“This is Kaisa,” she said, sliding the paper over to Hilda. Hilda just stared at it in shock, picking it up and looking at it closer.
“This-” she said, the words getting stuck in her mouth. “This is my mum.”
Hello Hilda fandom! This Christmas, the Hilda Fandom Network will be running a fandom gift exchange, organised by @cinnamon-sparrow-scout, for any artist or fic writer who wants to take part!
Sign-ups are now open! We will be accepting entrants until the 24th of November; giftees will be allocated on the 25th, and you'll then have a month to draw or write something based on the prompts you get. On the 25th of December you'll give your gifts, and get something in return. If you're interested, the form is here:
Create a new survey on your own or with others at the same time. Choose from a variety of survey types and analyze results in Google Forms.
As for the rules:
No NSFW content.
Your gift must be your own creation (no plagiarism, obviously), produced between November 25th and December 25th.
If you need to get in touch with your giftee before the 25th, please either do it anonymously, or contact @cinnamon-sparrow-scout so we can keep the surprise.
If you're not going to be able to complete your gift, please also contact @cinnamon-sparrow-scout - real life happens sometimes, and it's better to know so we can sort things out.
Please don't hesitate to message with any questions or comments, and we hope you all enjoy!!
Trevor, David/Lucy, Bellkeeper, and Johanna for the headcanons?
Hoo boy, this is gonna be a long one. Alrighty.
As a refresher and for reference, the headcanons are:
1. Realistic
2. Unrealistic, but hilarious
3. Heart crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends
4. Unrealistic, but to hell with canon
Trevor:
1. His mother is a bully, and he's simply emulating the adult that's most present in his life
2. He strikes me as the kinda guy that gets really into lipsynching pop songs, and gets caught doing so at inopportune moments
3. This pertains specifically to the Trevor Hallgrim AU: even though he knows he won't see his mother for at least 10 years, he still gets scared being alone on the street. He feels like she's going to be just around the next corner, waiting for him...
4. Honestly? Could see him with a college education and a good job. Kid's going places
David:
1. If he thinks too hard about tying his shoes, he forgets how to. He can only do it through muscle memory
2. He's fluent in another language (let's say Welsh), and mostly uses it to swear without his friends being shocked
3. Still figuring out his gender, and struggles to figure out why he always feels so ill at ease in his own skin
4. Honestly, he seems like he'd be a good cook too. Maybe that's not "unrealistic", persay, but we never see the kids cook, so why not
Bellkeeper:
1. In pain, 24/7/365. Dude walks up and down stairs for a living. As someone that walks multiple miles a day for work, I can tell you that the man's joints are screaming lmao
2. Outstanding singing voice. Y'know those scenes in movies where the guy with a gruff voice just belts out with a professional set of pipes? Yeah, that's him
3. He's had a rough time of life. Uncertainty of direction, no goals, etc. It wasn't his first choice to be a bell keeper, but when fate led him to it, he found something that really made him happy and stayed
4. Really good driver. Liked to run from the cops as a teenager just to test his skills
Johanna:
1. She's an Earl Grey kinda gal. And I love her for it
2. Smart though she is, sometimes she just... isn't. In the way that she'd get a can of Febreze and whisper "oh this is going to be so efficient" before spraying it into a desk fan. And subsequently into her own face when it blows back
3. Comes from a broken home and is still trying to recover from it. Whenever she's short with Hilda, she beats herself up over it, desperate to not become like her parents
4. Could absolute rock Erik Ahlberg's sh-t, and would do so with the most minor provocation
Ok so here we go!! This is where I’ll be reblogging screenshots from Hilda that might come in handy for art references, edits, etc!
Quick links:
Characters
Hilda | Alfur | Frida | David | Johanna | Kaisa
Twig | Baby Twig
Locations
All | Wilderness | Trolberg
[Archive]
A few things on how this will work:
I’ll only be reblogging still images from the show (and comics in cases where there isn’t much material of a character in the show itself) so there won’t be any fan art, edits or gifs (moving stuff is kinda hard to reference from aha)
Please feel free to submit your own images via submissions! If you can group images of the same character/location together in each post that would be much appreciated. If you’d prefer to make your own post you can just tag this blog or DM me and I’ll reblog it here
To find stuff quickly on this blog you can search the character’s name in the tags - you can add ‘(character)’ after to make sure no unrelated posts show up but it should work fine without. The same goes for locations/anything backgrounds-related.
The quick links are there to make life easier for myself jsksv but I’ll add posts for more characters as and when I come across them, so if something isn’t listed here, you can still try searching it and there’s a good chance it’ll come up. There’s also the archive if you wanna scan through lots of stuff quickly
This is gonna sound counter-intuitive but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend…following this blog? I’m gonna be reblogging a ton of stuff here to build up material, which could get annoying real fast :’) so feel free to just come back to this blog if and when you need it
That’s pretty much it! Feel free to send suggestions for ways I can improve this blog and make it more accessible. I made this based mostly on what’s helpful to me but if it comes in handy for anyone else that would be great :)
Hello Hilda Fandom! The Hilda Fandom Network has decided to celebrate the Hilda Series 3rd birthday! This September 21st will be the show’s third year since release. To commemorate the occasion we are running an art contest!
From this September 21st to October 21st you can submit fanfiction, fan art, or fan works to the judges. Do this by tagging us with hildabirthday2021 (or by atting @hfnmain!
Here’s the rules:
-No NSFW of any kind
-Any art form is allowed
-No stealing (Claiming someone else’s work as your own, plagiarism, etc.)
Those of you who can’t submit through Tumblr may submit through this Twitter and this Insta:
However, tags or our main blog are preferred, this is just a backup for those who can’t use Tumblr.
Twitter(Please ignore some of the unhinged stuff, DD’s the only one who said they’d let their account be used): https://twitter.com/TheDaringDanger
The entires will be judged by a panel of HFN judges and sorted into two categories based on medium. There will be prizes created by members of the HFN for the winners of the contest. (So far we have two prizes but that number is subject to growth.) Keep in mind there’s no required theme for what you enter, you could show us what Hilda means to you or even create an AU! The content is entirely up to you as long as it’s within the guidelines.
Or, if you don’t want to enter but still make content for the event, just specify that in your post and also put it under the event tag, hildabirthday2021.
I recently started watching Hilda and ended both seasons without any regrets. I loved the whole show, honestly one of my favorite series and I'm excited for the movie.
However, I would love to take this presentation to share my point of view of the fandom as we all know that the series is really good.
I just joined the fandom and haven't talked to another fan yet, so it's just my experience.
. . .
After watching the entire series, I felt the need to search for fanfiction, I wasn't looking for something specific and I didn't have expectations about what I would find.
I wondered what ships would be popular and immediately thought about shipping Alfur and Bartell, and I didn't see much fanart, (but I think it's because Hilda is underrated) I was hoping Alfur x Bartell would be popular but I was horribly wrong lmao-
And then...
Wait what? What's going on? 🧍
I didn't expect a crack ship to be the most popular in the fandom! Fanfics about Frilda also came to my mind but it's just the same, a crack ship is the main ship? Whowowow!
Don't get me wrong ✋ In fact I had also thought about it (before looking for fanfics) but my main thought was that people would only pair them up ironically, or for other awkward reasons... But it wasn't! Oh my lord thanks Hilda Fandom.
It was really weird because usually crack ships tend to be the least popular!! So while my brain was trying to get back to reality, I took the time to think about how this could work.
The more I thought about the ship, I got a new perspective on how I saw the characters. Then I went to read all the fanfics that I found.
(Btw, user who wrote more than 20 Hilda fanfics... HOW!?? but thanks lol)
And you know what
I love it 👉👈
People are always saying "They don't even know each other" ok I get it, but i don't like to be superficial about ships, and this one here I can't take it that way! because it's awesome🤺
Both characters are really interesting, so reading those fanfics made me really happy. The fanfics were very well written, the stories were really interesting and I still hope they update the ones on Hiatus!! (please I'm suffering pleeease)
All that love and appreciation for the characters was the reason why I love the show even more, it touched my heart. I'm excited to do something because Hilda is really special to me.
It's not all joy tho, I've found weird stuff that I don't even want to remember-
Btw, I'll summarize what I experience:
Now I ship Sketchbook/Kaisanna and I don't know who to blame for it
The weird things I found piss me off but I won't talk about it💀
I'm impressed by the quality of the fanfics on ao3!
When I read "Maven" I didn't understand until I saw the dates
Bisexual Johanna and Ace Kaisa are my fav headcanons
Almost everyone loves Kaisa?
I haven't talked about Hilda herself lol maybe later
The fandom is really nice, there is a lot of talent to see and support🤝 maybe I'll post more random stuff and some future analysis 👀
Congratulations Hilda on winning the award for Outstanding Children’s Animated Series at the Emmys! To celebrate I drew a little deerfox based off these concepts but in slightly more of my style. (Background comes from the show)
I saved the lineart so if you want to use it as a base to design your own go ahead! Just make sure to credit me and tag me because I'd love to see!
My grand finale to Pride Month as promised, release of "Abby"! The Hilda spinoff fancomic following the backstory of Abigail the Draugen Captain!
Content Warning: mild use of foul language
Note: IT IS A LARGE FILE, you may need to give it a moment to load. Also due to the file size, it may look janky on the mobile google docs version and you'll need to pull up the desktop version.
Kaisa absolutely hosts events at the library to boost lgbt authors in Trolberg. Q&A sessions, discussion tables, this sort of thing
She also organizes a special area dedicated to lgbt literature
Trolberg looks like the sort of city to put cops (or at least their version of cops) at pride. People at the Patrol raise their eyebrows at Gerda’s eager insistence that she is assigned to this duty
Elves aren’t familiar with the concept of pride, so when Johanna explains to Alfur why the city has a couple of rainbow decorations, he is fascinated by the concept and writes the Northen Counties about it
The Lost Clan does have a version of it though! They do treat it more like a love celebration, because there isn’t really any prejudice among them to be defeated (so much more advanced than humans :’)). Alfur gets invited, of course
Tildy loves to attend the parade to give emotional support to any people there who aren’t accepted by their families. She’s that “if your mother doesn’t support you, I’m your mother now” sort of person, and every year she is all too eager to distribute hugs and baked goods around
Speaking of the parade, the Raven Leader is one of the main organizers. After all, she has a lot of experience with event planning and her spirit is very well appreciated!
Since she knew Johanna was a designer, RL invites her make the posters for the events. It takes all her strength not to squeal with excitement
Still on Johanna, she’s more of a discreet sort of person, but during the month she does put some more effort into having her clothes match the colours of her pride flag once in a while
Pride events are a great opportunity for the Rat King to discover people who are part of the community. But when particularly nasty Marra ask them about it for “coming out” nightmare reasons, they refuse to say the names because they’ve 👏🏼 got👏🏼 morals 👏🏼
Honestly I’m sure Abigail would try to celebrate it when she came back to Trolberg so add some disgruntled witches trying to run after a gay ghost to stop it from causing mayhem to the mix (not Kaisa, though. Kaisa would just be watching from afar going “good for her”)
Anyway these are silly but I hope you enjoy them xD please feel very welcome to add on!!
Hilda has never been to a pride parade before, with living in the wilderness and all, and Johanna takes her. While she’s there someone uses they/ them for her (because you never assume, especially at pride) and it gives her something to think about.
She talks to a few other people in the parade and describes her feelings, and after hearing about a bunch of labels and descriptions she thinks she likes agender the best. Of course, she hasn’t settled on anything yet, but she’s got plenty of time to figure herself out. (And if she has any questions a certain librarian is more than happy to help)
Frida’s parents banned her from going to the parade, but she managed to sneak out under the guise of a sparrow scout activity, something Raven Lesbian Leader confirmed without question
Lucy (trans girl David) makes an appearance! She gains the confidence to come out to her friends and the rest of Trolberg (her parents already knew) during the parade, showing up in a skirt with her flag like a cape.
At one point, all the flags appear in the sky with messages of affirmation with what can only be described as magic. And if anyone noticed that the librarian had disappeared during it? Well they didn’t have any solid proof.