Absolutely AMAZING fic. Go read this if you haven't, it's a jewel.
hello fowldom! do you think that artemis and holly are the friends of all time? does the passage about artemisβ magic in the time paradox perpetually rotate in your mind? do you enjoy our teenage criminal mastermind also being an awkward loser? then do i have the fic for you!
i finished this one up last week but i figured i could try yelling about it into the void for a bit :)
Artemis fowl memes! If you missed out on a few or want to look at them again or whatever I have them over here, I'll add on to this as I make more memes
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The fowl twins- book 1:
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please let me ramble on my silly fics, the published and the wips alike. π₯Ή
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so i've been rereading Artemis Fowl (series) again and even tho it was one of my favorite kids series I'm noticing some kinda weird or icky stuff that flew over my head before. Like damn if these books ain't just cyberpunk espionage magitek copaganda. Book 2 is literally about an ethnically motivated class uprising being put down by the police(who are framed as the good guys) because said racial minority/underclass is too violent and stupid to deserve better treatment in the prison system. and also too stupid and violent to have masterminded the plan for revolution themselves and needed one of the smart races to do it for them.
and any time there's a civilian presence in the book, they are depicted as either an antagonistic obstructive bureaucrat or a whiny caricature played for laughs. not totally sure if this is because these books were written while uncritically carrying over this kind of depiction that was historically the norm in its genres (police procedural), or if this is the author's own (conscious or subconscious) idealogical biases seeping in. might be both tbh.
anyway anyway the thing i actually wanted to bring up is that a really bizarre detail that stuck out to me during my re-reads is the way the different fairy races/species are characterized. there's 7(really 8) races/species of fairies who are disntint, and they have different traits and powers. So like there are elves who are good with magic, sprites who can fly, goblins (the aforementioned race that is too stupid and violent to be capable of organized protest) who can shoot fire etc.
Butt (foreshadowing lol) the one that was so weird to me is the characterization of gnomes, the last and arguably least of the fairy races in the artemis fowl series. they seem to make up the majority of the fairy population and a significant portion of background characters. bdon't get much screen time in the books because of not having any main characters who are one. They're sole defining characteristic?
Having enormous asses.
That's it. that's their whole thing. basically every time there's a gnome character depicted, the text goes out if it's way mention how dummy thicc the gnomes are and how their dumptruck rear ends take up too much room and keep blocking things and knocking shit over when they walk.
like there's also already a whole race of fairies (the dwarfs)whose whole thing is to be a never ending font of burglary escape techniques and fart jokes whenever the plot or author demand them. you would think having enormous asses would come in that territory, but no. it goes to the last group that we the audience don't really know or care about as much.
and i just don't really know what to make of that. that in coming up with fantasy races for his books, one of the most present but least prominent in tbe books' single defining and noteworthy character trait is having such fat asses that they block public pedestrian walkways (no really). i wish i knew what exactly the thought process behind (lol) that one was.
anyway hope i explained why it's so weird to me well, goodnight
Am spending a week at my parents', and look who's there ! Do you recognise this owl ? π¦Yep, that's right ! Baby Artemis' plushy is real baby ! β¨ She belongs to my mum, and her real name is Hedwige π₯°
π Some Juliet sketches π
These past months have been a struggle mentally, but Iβm recovering. I needed to draw our Jade Princess because this idea has haunted my mind for over three months and I needed it out, thus let me introduce : Juliet with a mullet π π» Justβ¦ because.
Iβm happy with this drawing I think, itβs too busy but I like the watercolor style. I designed her based on Nonaka Miho ; because like, she has the loveliest smile, and sheβs exactly how I picture Juliet in my mind. Sheβs also a badass !! πͺπ»
His Dark Materials is a franchise that tackles so many branches of physics and even creates a universe where the main course of study is experimental theology which is all about identifying and explaining dark matter while also adding dimensions to string theory, the multiverse theory, and the very concept of the human soul. At the same time, it aggressively calls out the problem with the state being controlled by the church, how people are condemned for being different and religious fearmongering stops the chance at growth both on an individual and a societal scale. Itβs a franchise where the heroes of the story are two children who arenβt allowed to know the prophecy theyβre a part of, who save the world unwittingly simply by doing what they believe to be right. Meanwhile, the person who thought he was the hero all along, the person who rallied an army from multiple universes to FIGHT. GOD. HIMSELF. is ultimately consumed by his own ego and forced to take a back seat when he realises heβs just one tiny piece of a much larger story thatβs true heart is his own daugher. The child he abandoned, the child he didnβt know or care to know how to look after. Itβs a franchise about finding love even when your biological family abandon you, itβs about looking evil in the eye and seeing your own mother, itβs about good and evil not being black and white but instead a complex and cruel mixture of both. Itβs about the two worst people you know banding together at the last second to save their daughter with their final breaths. Itβs about exploration and learning how to grow through experience, itβs about kindness being shared across the multiverse, exchanging stories with strangers and saving the whole world by doing something perfectly ordinary and receiving no reward.
Oh, and itβs also a franchise rich with fantasy, with giant talking polar bears, witches and ghosts, angels and daemons, and a mammal-like species from another world that travels exclusively on roller skates.Β
And it fucking. rocks.
For the ask game!
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π What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists? The most embarrassing ones from my youth have thankfully been deleted and vaporised from existence π In 'Artemis Experiments Weird' there are a few things that I'd like to tweak - to name the biggest ones : some aspects of Selene and Artemis' early interactions, the progression of the Wired's hold on Artemis' psyche, and the big fight between the two Artemises. But like said, it's more like tweaking some stuff to improve it rather than me being embarrassed - when I'm embarrassed I just delete or never publish the thing π
π¬ Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon?
Of the available ones, none, to be honest ! On the opposite, I'd love for more of my friends to be AF fans and fluent enough in English to read my fics π I wanna talk more about Artemis Fowl irl !!! Right now the only one I can pester with it is my poor husband and while he loves AF as well the poor man deserves a break π
On top of May being mental health awareness month, itβs also BPD (Borderline personality disorder) awareness month. I donβt even have enough words to describe what it feels like living with BPD. It has been my tool to survival and will eventually be my demise. Life with BPD is the hardest. You are emotionally fucked. You are toxic to everyone you come into contact with. Everyday is a struggle. Every hour is a caution tape. Living with it is like living in a gas chamber that is slowly leaking toxic fumes. Your breath is always caught. Your tears are always flowing. Even with therapy and medication for the symptoms, there is so much left to deal with. It never really goes away. At a moment's notice you can change feelings from βI love youβ to βI hate youβ. Having someone love you feels fake. Like you are never going to be loveable. That no one could ever love you. Youβre too much of a burden. Too damaged to be loved. BPD is from trauma. And well, I have generations of it. No matter how much I try, no matter how much I grow it never feels enough. Emotions feel like suicide. Thoughts scream too loud. Demons control you like a puppet unable to run away. Hallucinations come and go. You really never know when they'll come or go. Sometimes the episodes will be minutes, others months. Distance or slightest voice change feels like abandonment. Happiness or peace feels like an illusion. Losing someone is like the world is the knives across your skin. Anger feels like jumping off a cliff. Every time someone tries to comfort or love you feels like a trick. You either feel alone or feel like a god. Living with BPD is the hardest thing to live with. It's comparable to giving my children up for adoption. Either youβre high on top of the galaxy or youβre at rock bottom over and over in a vicious cycle. We are so stigmatized. People think we are βticking time bombsβ. Hell Iβve even had therapists leave or deny me because of it. For all of my borderlines out there, you deserve love. You deserve happiness. You canβt just cope, you have to heal. It will take every ounce of self control and inner power to get through each episode. But I promise you when you find peace, true peace youβll know what Iβm talking about. Your trauma does not make you. You are not your trauma. You are not crazy. You are not a burden. Just hang tight, weβve got this.Β
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