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spy school british invasion is the best book in the spy school series there i said it…
stuart gibbs can in fact milk the crap out of spy school and funjungle and i’ll eat it up everytime
@forest-of-stories @venusdear GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
I made my first bit of Hypnotists fic on AO3: this one is very, very fluffy with a hint of trauma! Plenty of Dee Dee here.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Please, please read it, I love my two sillies so muchhhh.
WAIT. BIG NATE. DEE DEE. IS FROM BIG NATE????????
Did I forget to mention that? Yeah, she is! It was one of my favorite strips back when I read a lot of comics, so she and her friends were the first characters I did fanfiction of. Time passed, Jax got added, and now we’re here.
Whatcha think of that pairing, LOL? :)
YES YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THAT … i didn’t read tags cause i was like this is from goat so idc what it is and then i saw the LAST NAME and i was like HUH???? and then she mentioned NATE??? and i was like HUH??????? and then i finally read the tags… I’M CRYINGGG yes big nate is literally one of my favorite strips too it’s so funny LMAOOO this mashup… i’ve never thought about it…
“This is from goat” I assume that’s using the acronym GOAT? So, a compliment? /gen
(Also why is my emoji an apple /gen)
yes goat as in the acronym!!! your emoji is an apple cause when i look at prankster the visual color i got was red (i forgot what’s it called but i have that thing where words/numbers = colors)
and then i was like apple (its a red emoji) cause an apple a day keeps the prankster away (play on a phrase…)
nevanna has the 🌀 emoji for the hypnotists cause mind swirlies….
@forest-of-stories @venusdear GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
I made my first bit of Hypnotists fic on AO3: this one is very, very fluffy with a hint of trauma! Plenty of Dee Dee here.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Please, please read it, I love my two sillies so muchhhh.
WAIT. BIG NATE. DEE DEE. IS FROM BIG NATE????????
Did I forget to mention that? Yeah, she is! It was one of my favorite strips back when I read a lot of comics, so she and her friends were the first characters I did fanfiction of. Time passed, Jax got added, and now we’re here.
Whatcha think of that pairing, LOL? :)
YES YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THAT … i didn’t read tags cause i was like this is from goat so idc what it is and then i saw the LAST NAME and i was like HUH???? and then she mentioned NATE??? and i was like HUH??????? and then i finally read the tags… I’M CRYINGGG yes big nate is literally one of my favorite strips too it’s so funny LMAOOO this mashup… i’ve never thought about it…
@forest-of-stories @venusdear GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
I made my first bit of Hypnotists fic on AO3: this one is very, very fluffy with a hint of trauma! Plenty of Dee Dee here.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Please, please read it, I love my two sillies so muchhhh.
WAIT. BIG NATE. DEE DEE. IS FROM BIG NATE????????
THE ANGEL AND THE DEVIL AND THE METAPHORSSSSSS @forest-of-stories @venusdear
And a hint of fic because why not? (Usually, I write like a play script, but sometimes I go for prose as you’ll see here.)
There were two sensations that Elias Mako had gotten used to since his death, and they both had to do with his chains.
The things looked like Twizzlers hanging off of him, protruding from his veins and constantly pulling him back from his ambitions. That tug. That grinding, suffocating yank. That was one problem.
When Mako wasn’t amongst the living, the chains weren’t as hard to deal with, but that might’ve been because laying in his grave meant a purgatory of unending darkness.
He heard them constantly. The stray thoughts of everyone he’d ever bent the mind of. That was the other problem.
They weren’t present thoughts, no. They were the thoughts at the moment of capture, the second of eye contact…however long ago that might’ve been.
Mako sat by his headstone sipping the black coffee that Wilson had brought…on the doctor’s orders, of course...and he pondered these things. He had always been good at pondering.
Today, the thoughts were just a faint buzz. Most of it very kind to him. “Nothing to concern myself with.” He thought, staring up at the sky…
…and hating how blue it was.
It reminded him of failure. And Elias Mako hated failure.
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There was one song Jackson Opus had utterly fallen in love with since his girlfriend made him listen to it. Misery Business, Paramore.
And even a visit back to the place where, some would argue, it all went wrong, couldn’t deter the young man from jamming the f**k out.
“Whoa, I never meant to brag, but I got him where I want him now, whoooa, it was never my intention to brag, to steal it all away from you now…” He tapped his feet proudly on the cobblestones.
Was this what it felt like to not have depression crushing you every waking moment? Maybe. Or maybe today was just a good day?
It took until the bridge for Jax to realize where he was, and a little longer to find out with whom.
“…”
Those chains.
They looked painful.
Jax wondered, for just a second, if there was a way to remove them…”NO!”
He’d said that out loud.
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“Ah. Jackson.”
“It’s Jax. Everyone calls me that.”
“Well, I believe you and I both know that I’m not like everyone.”
At least he’d gotten more blunt after dying.
The Opus kid scoffed, “Remember our last fight? Wanna go for that again?” He could already feel the feathers itching just under his back, wanting to escape.
Mako held a hand to his temple as he floated upwards, just to add a little extra height. “I’m afraid I’ve got a nasty headache this time around…” He winced, clearly fake if you were the sort of person who watched for that sort of thing.
Jax didn’t flinch as his former mentor closed his eyes. In fact, he took the opportunity—
And when Mako lashed out with what he was certain would at least be a stunning blow, he was met with blinding light.
“Agh!”
“Sorry. Want me to close some of these?” Jax said flatly, despite no longer having a mouth on his face. The telepathy was definitely not fair, as far as Mako was concerned. Neither was the sheer number of eyes.
“I believe I can handle it.” The doctor snarled, and went for another sneak attack.
Nothing but lies. That was all that laid behind that demon’s fancy facade. And Jax…Angel Jax…knew it.
“COME AT ME!”
I love to write, man…
Ok, so I’m Prankster, BTW.
Definitely don’t want to throw out too much at one time, so we’ll just give you a few morsels, hehe
My Hypnotists fic is one of those post-canon AUs, so:
- Jax is like 20 now
- Axel’s a ghost, because coping
- Mako’s a ghost who got his memory back after he died, because he did not get beaten up NEARLY enough in canon
- Also I literally chained him (Mako) up so I’m just gonna give you the art for his ghost now
His “powered up” form is heavily based on Brother Blood from DC.
AND JAX HAS A GIRLFRIEND WHO’S ALSO A MIND BENDER. He met her in Maine (where he lives now) while he was trying to escape/end his life.
Oh, yeah, Jax has real bad PTSD if that wasn’t obvious.
Any questions? :)
- Prankster
fork in kitchen with jax having some real bad ptsd!!! i’m even surprised we allll read the same books…. at least he has a gf…….. i guess…. IM CRYINGGG
YOUR DRAWING OF YOUR AU MAKO LOOKS SOOO GOOD DUDEEEEEE when he couldn’t get more evil, he GETS more evil 💔💔💔
so is he out for jax now…? Again… i mean still…
OH IK BROTHER BLOOD FROM DC that’s pretty cool and fitting bc wasn’t brother blood a cult leader…
OMG AXEL’S A GHOST OUR GOATTTT IS HE LIKE MAKO well without the chains and stuff but does he have like powers or a powered up form??
jax is too old for this release HIMMMMM
Axel still has his hypnotic powers, and the closest thing to additional abilities is that he can grow ghoulish mangrove roots from the ground if he gets really, really angry…but, it’s like the Voltron team combining their robots, it doesn’t happen willy-nilly
Also, Mako’s a lot weaker than he used to be; when he died, the spell over people he brainwashed to trust him either faded or broke completely. Still very creepy, though, and with more of a temper now.
And yeah, he’d like to kill Jax if he can, don’t worry about it (very much worry about it)
@venusdear YESSSS BROTHER BLOOD WAS SUPER CULTY YOU HEAR ME YOU UNDERSTANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Also do you want to be tagged in the prose I wrote about Ghost Mako and Angel Jax?
Cause Jax has an angel form from the power of his ancestry, if you wanna hear about that ^^
PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT ANGEL FORM JAXXX
yes!!! im kinda of a comic geek 🥹🥹 so i remember brother blood from an issue!!!
OHHH I SEEEEE at least axel has something cool
YAYAYAY THATS UNDERSTANDABLE CAUSE LIKE HE’S A GHOST NOW so him dying basically was like “oh we don’t need to fear anymore” …?
Decided to start sharing Hypnotists’ fic snippets because life is short @forest-of-stories @venusdear
My babies and all their horrendous play-script trauma (I usually write like a play script; the prose is actually less common!)
ALSO ALSO ALSOOOOOOO
WOULD ANYONE LIKE MY HEADCANONS ON WHAT MAKO’S PLAN WAS AT THE END OF BOOK 3? CAUSE HERE THEY ARE, WRITTEN OUT ALL NICE AND NEAT
“I would’ve taken Kira instead” is my least favorite line that I’ve written here. In a good way.
Also, “Lolis and Marcinko” are Evelyn and Ivan, the Sandpeople from the books! They’re a couple in my fic ^^
@propranksterpropaganda you said in one of your posts (can’t remember which one) that you haven’t read any of Gordon Korman’s books besides the Hypnotists series. If you want to sample his extensive back catalog, I recommend that you start with Masterminds, which is also the first in a trilogy. ( @venusdear hopefully you’ll agree?)
The premise: Five kids have been raised in a tiny New Mexico town where everyone’s lives are as conflict-free as possible. They’ve never heard of things like murder; they can’t access accurate information about famous events in American history; and things like lying and disobeying are absolutely taboo. Slowly, the main characters realize that the adults in their lives are both surveilling and deceiving them, and their community is a front for a massive experiment.
Why I think you’ll like it: Masterminds is also about young people being manipulated by adults whom they should be able to trust, which forces them to abandon everything they ever knew and figure out how much they’ll have to stretch their own principles in order to survive. Instead of one protagonist, there’s a true ensemble of very different personalities, which leads to some very fun interactions. And while mind control isn’t quite as central to the plot and world-building as The Hypnotists, it does play a part, especially in the first book.
YES I AGREE!!! i feel like masterminds is similar to the hypnotists where it is much bigger than it seems and even gets darker (well as dark as a middle school targeted book series can get…)
Dearest darling BloodGhost!Mako because I think @forest-of-stories and @venusdear would like it!
Context: In my fic, Mako managed to procure a Spirit Stone (plot device that enables ghosts to be resurrected/resurrect themselves from their graves) and used it to try and attack Jax and Dee Dee.
They defeated him temporarily and broke the Stone in half, confining him not quite to his grave, but to the cemetery where his body lies.
While skulking in circles around the headstones, trying to find some sort of escape to begin rebuilding his power, Mako reunited with a newly-visiting Wilson DeVries…
…who, in my lore, stayed in the Army after the third book by transitioning to being a regular private and only using his mind-bending in interrogations.
Anyway, Wilson and Mako meet again and it’s just as weird and uncomfortable and creepy as you’d think, and they beat up Tommy pretty badly, but he ends up alright.
Wilson found a red-and-yellow crystal in a pawn shop, and decided to gift it to Mako on the off-chance that the guy had somehow cheated death, and it turns out that that crystal gives Mako the power to roam completely freely (for about an hour)…
…in addition to giving him the Blood Ghost form. Inspired by DC’s Brother Blood, he can use the staff to hypnotize people in addition to his eyes. (Unfortunately, the former didn’t work on Tommy cause he’s colorblind XD)
evil mako fork in kitchen bloodghost!mako is so interesting i like this i like this very much
ofc wilson……. not surprised ….
Ok, so I’m Prankster, BTW.
Definitely don’t want to throw out too much at one time, so we’ll just give you a few morsels, hehe
My Hypnotists fic is one of those post-canon AUs, so:
- Jax is like 20 now
- Axel’s a ghost, because coping
- Mako’s a ghost who got his memory back after he died, because he did not get beaten up NEARLY enough in canon
- Also I literally chained him (Mako) up so I’m just gonna give you the art for his ghost now
His “powered up” form is heavily based on Brother Blood from DC.
AND JAX HAS A GIRLFRIEND WHO’S ALSO A MIND BENDER. He met her in Maine (where he lives now) while he was trying to escape/end his life.
Oh, yeah, Jax has real bad PTSD if that wasn’t obvious.
Any questions? :)
- Prankster
fork in kitchen with jax having some real bad ptsd!!! i’m even surprised we allll read the same books…. at least he has a gf…….. i guess…. IM CRYINGGG
YOUR DRAWING OF YOUR AU MAKO LOOKS SOOO GOOD DUDEEEEEE when he couldn’t get more evil, he GETS more evil 💔💔💔
so is he out for jax now…? Again… i mean still…
OH IK BROTHER BLOOD FROM DC that’s pretty cool and fitting bc wasn’t brother blood a cult leader…
OMG AXEL’S A GHOST OUR GOATTTT IS HE LIKE MAKO well without the chains and stuff but does he have like powers or a powered up form??
jax is too old for this release HIMMMMM
Delighted to announce that I have found a pile of old Onion headlines I screenshotted from various posts and am now using them as reference bait for @forest-of-stories
^ How Wilson talks about Kira to all new recruits (behind her back, of course; why would he compliment her like that to her face?)
^ A younger Mako struggling really hard to find out what, if anything, might enhance his powers
^ Wilson and DeRon on a daily basis (no way I’m forgetting about DeRon)
^ Jax, specifically in The Dragonfly Effect
^ Jax’s parents, specifically in The Dragonfly Effect
^ Axel after the Sandman’s Guild started getting kidnapped in Memory Maze
^ Mako, all the time
^ Jax during 80% of Memory Maze
^ Axel talking about Mako (I mean, he did call Sentia “Dr. Mako’s Flying Circus”)
Side note to that last one: In my fic, Axel definitely teases Mako about being about to actually float, now that they’re both ghosts.
“See? Flying!”
“Not the same thing.”
“Very much the same thing!”
These are spot on and I am giggling so hard. Thank you for tagging me!
@propranksterpropaganda @venusdear have the two of you talked? Because based on the fact that you both love The Hypnotists, I think the two of you should talk.
I’M CRYING these r funny ESPECIALLY the one about jax’s parents like yesssss keep staring at that wall
@venusdear I THOUGHT I WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO YOU BC I SAW YOU HADN’T POSTED IN LIKE 6 MONTHS OML
HI HELLO HI fellow Hypnotists fannnn!
I’ve never read a lot of Korman’s other stuff, so I fear our Venn Diagrams of interests connect in one place and one place only, but uhhhhh
Wanna see my fic stuff or whatever, Ionknow how to talk to people
I’M CRYINGGG YES HELLOOO!!!! 😄😄😄 you can call me sunny!!! yeah… i’m a very busy person…. i’m not even gonna lie to u… u have seemed to caught me at this time YAY!!!!
BAHAHAH THAT’S FINE!!!! YIPEPEPE ANOTHER HYPNOTISTS FAN!!! what a small world it is… YES PLEASE SHOW ME YOUR FIC STUFF 😄😄😄😄 I LOVE ME SOME FIC STUFF i’ve read nevanna’s stuff and the few hypnotists fics there is…
Delighted to announce that I have found a pile of old Onion headlines I screenshotted from various posts and am now using them as reference bait for @forest-of-stories
^ How Wilson talks about Kira to all new recruits (behind her back, of course; why would he compliment her like that to her face?)
^ A younger Mako struggling really hard to find out what, if anything, might enhance his powers
^ Wilson and DeRon on a daily basis (no way I’m forgetting about DeRon)
^ Jax, specifically in The Dragonfly Effect
^ Jax’s parents, specifically in The Dragonfly Effect
^ Axel after the Sandman’s Guild started getting kidnapped in Memory Maze
^ Mako, all the time
^ Jax during 80% of Memory Maze
^ Axel talking about Mako (I mean, he did call Sentia “Dr. Mako’s Flying Circus”)
Side note to that last one: In my fic, Axel definitely teases Mako about being about to actually float, now that they’re both ghosts.
“See? Flying!”
“Not the same thing.”
“Very much the same thing!”
These are spot on and I am giggling so hard. Thank you for tagging me!
@propranksterpropaganda @venusdear have the two of you talked? Because based on the fact that you both love The Hypnotists, I think the two of you should talk.
I’M CRYING these r funny ESPECIALLY the one about jax’s parents like yesssss keep staring at that wall
howve you been lately!
for me college is going way better than i thought and im still obsessed with jay chang and the rest of one pact
senior yr is killing me !!! 💔💔 still obsessed with him fork found in kitchen sometimes i go on tumblr but ive been doing college apps unfortunately rn 💔💔
Amber: Did you ever have like a pet run away and find it or anything? Malik: I had a lizard that I burnt.
Amber: Malik got into a fight. Tori: That’s bad. Tori: Tori: Did he lose?