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".....I think I'm gonna quit."
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been thinking about Hymn for days and wanted to experiment with some style stuff......natural light version under the cut!
patron saint of chips, coffee, whiskey, and ice cream
#friends at the table#fatt#f@tt#counterweight#COUNTER/weight#the chime#fatt fanart#traditional art#counterweight prequel#counterweight 0.5
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I BRAKE FOR 馃毥
#nadiart#audy#automated dynamics#counterweight#counterweight prequel#friends at the table#fatt#fanadiart
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The robot didn鈥檛 want to wear the hat: and that鈥檚 fine. All you can do is try. All you can do is hack the machine that prints the hats and go skipping through it鈥檚 kaleidoscopic innards. It鈥檚 a wave of a hand. It鈥檚 no time wasted, if there鈥檚 such a thing as wasted time. They said that if you kept being late to class there鈥檇 be consequences, but you could access the registration computer from the rooftop of C block and look down at the campus and be exactly as late as you wanted. You could be terrifically late. It鈥檚 a blink of an eye.
And this is SO easy! The machine that prints the hats is easy, some squat little AI inside turning and looking at you, bleary-eyed. Goodbye! The security cameras all over this casino? Trivial. You can see a man about to spill his coffee. He鈥檚 spilled his coffee. Down in custodial a pink LED clicks on. This is a casino? They store money here? But what would you spend the money on? So, the rent鈥檚 due, but what are they going to do about that? Evict you?聽
These are magic tricks. This is sleight of hand. Small fry don鈥檛 get to see the real stuff. Once you made it to class on time and there was a box on your desk and right between then and the end of the period you spent 6 months in the dream of a dream of some glacial, oily thing. You rearranged planets in the sky between your thumb and index finger. The ocean in the shape of a ring.聽
Click your fingers. It鈥檚 cameras. Scrub through the footage. Pay attention, as much as you can. It鈥檚 just a job: and that鈥檚 fine. Hack the machine that prints the hats. Do what you love, and you鈥檒l never work a day in your life.聽
This week on COUNTER/Weight 0.4: New Perspectives
In the event of a crisis, remain calm!
#*pointing* mako : )#Counterweight#Counterweight prequel#Fatt#friends at the table#mako trig#I have another one of these in my drafts somewhere. I think the one from the 2nd episode? hold on that one was really really good too#edit: aw man shut up the last line just really hit me. come oonnnnnn#*pointing* mako : (
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I finally got around to listening to the finale of the c/w prequel, and it鈥檚 honestly very funny how much Divine stuff they didn鈥檛 get to and how that maps on the broader c/w Oricon/Apostolos trend
Like the Chime barely interacted with Divines beyond Righteousness (and of course Rigor), by virtue of them all being Oricon characters (aside from Cass), and it鈥檚 so fitting that they didn鈥檛 encounter most of the Divine content prepared for the prequel
The insertion of the Divine, Arbitrage into the plot just reflects how much their focus has been on Divines in their sci-fi (Divine Cycle) seasons beyond c/w, and definitely mirrors Rigor as big bad
#friends at the table#counter/weight#counterweight prequel#the divine comma arbitrage is so cool as a concept I hate it so much I鈥檓 glad they鈥檙e focusing on it
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(most of) the prequel outfits!
ive never drawn the chime before but i grew up with counterweight, isnt that wild!! seems like so long ago. cass is missing until they get an outfit, i hope its less confusing than 'closed-toed flipflops' but i honestly wouldnt have it any other way
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just started the chime prequel ep and somehow i never considered the mako to grand fashion pipeline... mako really did run so grand could also run
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"the coat that rich people, and people who are genuinely cold, would wear" is such a fucking funny way to describe those jackets
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how about... Kobus and Mako from Counter/Weight for the character bingo~
I would argue that, while I do make up large chunks of Kobus' personality, several of the important building blocks are there in canon. For instance, they are canonically endearing, and I am definitely endeared to them. With that said I cannot say that they got done dirty by the fans when they barely show up and half of that is in the faction games that people often skip. (They did get done dirty by Austin though. I am still mad about the terrible design of the ball/auction minigame robbing me of one of my few shots at a Kobus scene. And for that scene where they go to ask Mako for help with Grace only for the whole thing to be about Orth instead. My grudge against the Counter/Weight ending is deep and varied.)
I am extremely fond of Mako but I did have to go for "they work better as part of a dynamic" because I think that Mako does the Keith character thing of pretending nothing bothers him in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, and that's much more interesting when you have people who are going to make him confront those things anyway. What I'm saying is that the Chime are good for each other even when they deeply suck as people. They're good!
#ask#randomidiosyncrazies#thank you! always up for talking about the counterweight crew#a fun fact is that i had to pause 10 minutes into the chime prequel because i was getting too worked up over. them#what i'm saying is that in the victorian era i would have been one of the examples for those guys who insisted that novels were evil
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im so glad the entire cast felt the same vibes between Hymn and Aria that i was
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hello and welcome to the niche corner
hello i'm n茅ide and this is my blog, which mostly consists of me being grumpy about niche things. i have multiple degrees in medieval irish literature and while sometimes i use these to be vaguely educational, more often i use them to write incredibly specific fic about characters nobody else cares about, and this fic can be found on ao3 (for logged-in users)
so this is a guide to my incredibly specific fanfiction, which i feel also gives a reasonably good introduction to the kind of thing i'm likely to be yelling about on this blog
i am reliably informed that you don't actually need to know anything about the source material to have fun with these fics (or suffer from the angst), but also they can be more fun if you do. some have bibliographies/refs/explanations so i also know a few people have used them as a way to get started with medieval Irish lit which will never not be extremely funny to me
current WIP: chasing someone else's dream (16k, WIP): a c煤 chulainn/l谩eg reincarnation fic. they have been reincarnated, not for the first time. they've also been cursed, and thus, unlike in every life before this one, they've never met. ngl this fic contains some of the best prose i ever wrote, please read it
group chats of the ulster cycle, or, the in loco parentis series
a modern AU of the ulster cycle. sort of a college AU, turned into a ballet AU halfway through. consists of:
in loco parentis (135k, complete): my magnum opus. c煤 chulainn and l谩eg are university flatmates; group chats featuring all your favourite ulster cycle characters and also some you probably never gave a shit about; c煤 chulainn as a tiny trans ballet dancer and ferdia as his pas de deux partner; baking; everybody hating on conchobar; nobody dies; way more feelings about both ballet and shostakovich than anybody was expecting, including me; and much more. comes with explanatory notes / bibliography because i'm just Like That
getting the dee (9k, in progress/abandoned): a prequel to ILP, sort of a longes mac nuislenn fic except nobody dies and there are more sex toys. naoise/deirdre with guest appearances from conall. one day i'll go back to this but also i'm a coward
valent谩in's day (4k oneshot, complete): a prequel to ILP, featuring l谩eg and cormac in the pub on valentine's day making fun of all their friends in relationships. they make out, fortunately their friendship survives the experience.
and when you move, i move (2.5k oneshot, complete): a sequel to ILP. just a horny lil c煤 chulainn/ferdia oneshot set a few months after ILP wraps up.
miscellaneous ulster cycle oneshots
i will be honest, most of these are sad fics of oidheadh con culainn ("the death of c煤 chulainn") because i just love writing angst, but there's a couple of others in there
a moment's silence (3k): smutty c煤/l谩eg fic set during t谩in b贸 c煤ailnge, inspired by this picture. the most explicit fic i've written
to walk this world alone (6k): extremely niche fic featuring l谩eg after c煤 chulainn's death. some otherworldly happenings. sad but not as sad as it was originally going to be.
counterweight (3k): c煤 chulainn/l谩eg during oidheadh con culainn, anticipating c煤 chulainn's death. this one's pretty sad too.
dindsenchas (3.5k): missing scenes between c煤 chulainn and l谩eg during t谩in b贸 c煤ailnge. narrated by the landscape of ulster and addressed in second person to c煤 chulainn himself because the best sex scenes are the ones narrated by a tree.
in one dwelling place (2k): l谩eg/c煤 chulainn/emer. vaguely smutty, vaguely fluffy.
we'll say goodbye, today (2k): c煤 chulainn and l谩eg during oidheadh con culainn, anticipating c煤 chulainn's death. big sad hours.
glorious as the sunrise (3k): this is just angst. c煤 chulainn/l谩eg during oidheadh con culainn again. not particularly shippy but they love each other very much.
a marriage of inconvenience (3k): modern AU. c煤 chulainn wants to marry emer but unfortunately never bothered to get divorced after he married l谩eg for househunting purposes. a very silly fic.
of grief and glory (1.7k): c煤 chulainn deals with the aftermath of t谩in b贸 c煤ailnge, especially fer diad's death. more sad times lol.
flight risk (2.3k): teenage c煤 chulainn and l谩eg steal a spaceship. they get caught. fun scifi AU.
other medieval lit fics (non ulster cycle)
patron saint of toasties (2.5k): finn cycle fic. ois铆n took time out of uni to travel and now all his friends have graduated and he's lonely enough to text the christian union's "text a toastie" hotline. which is how he meets patrick. very silly modern AU gen fic mostly taking the piss out of st patrick
two birds of a feather (2.8k): yonec (marie de france) | togail bruidne da derga crossover fic. bird dad support group. conaire and yonec hang out and bond over their dads having maybe been birds. stupidest thing i ever wrote and i adore it.
quiver and shake (1.8k): fourth branch of the mabinogi fic. gwydion and gilfaethwy's special brotherly bonding time. canon typical content warnings apply.
other
absent thee from felicity (11k, WIP): hamlet | romeo & juliet crossover modern AU in which horatio and benvolio attempt to deal with the aftermath of their respective tragedies. sad at first, will gradually get sillier. haven't updated in a couple of years but that doesn't mean it's permanently abandoned, i'm just busy
a guild doctor and an abolitionist walk into a bar (5.5k, complete): mortimer sark/daragh vernant (the butterfly assassin by finn longman). in which they become friends while coparenting their fucked up assassin child and pretending they're not doing that. blatant pro-mortimer propaganda tbh and i'm not sorry
if you've never read any of my fics before and are wondering where to start, i firmly believe the reincarnation fic (current WIP) is a good one because it has a solid mix of angst, shenanigans, and weird fuckery, so you can experience the tonal whiplash of the rest of my fics all in one place! but it is a WIP and i make zero promises about upload schedule, it happens when it happens, so not so good if you're impatient haha. plenty of others to get you started though
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i can;t listen to the counterweight prequel live because my roommate got bit by a feral dog .
#personal#jest.ing. if that is not clear.#not about the bite.#i just do have my priorities in order.#i popped in for five seconds while iw was waiting for him to get back from a hospital.
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gonna frow up. bc im playing in stars and time and listening to the counterweight prequel finale and im getting messed up on emotions
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Sometimes, AuDy had found, people asked them to wait. This was transparently an exercise of power. Sit in there. I鈥檒l be right through. Flat silence as minutes passed. There existed a line of tension between one human and another and as one person wound it tauter and tauter - with distance, or silence, or an enforced period of waiting - certain useful anxieties would be sure to emerge in the other. The logic of this seemed sound to AuDy.聽
On the other side of the room was a framed print of a man in the snow. He was lying on his back. A wire ran from the ceiling down to an outlet just above the floor, painted pale green. The top pin in the outlet carried electricity and the hexagonal grey one beneath it was a mesh hookup. For cleaning robots, and the like. The room was very quiet.聽
What the people who asked AuDy to wait failed to understand was that 聽the line they wound as they brewed coffee in a neighbouring room would never grow taut. They could wind and wind and AuDy, silent in the waiting room, tracing the wire up the wall, would unspool their patience with an easy comfort. One minute was one hour was one month was one second.
Years later, just before the door opened, they remembered the man in the snow. He was lying on his back.
This week on COUNTER/Weight 0.2: Valuable Connections
What鈥檚 your lucky number, Aria?
#yeah this one#banger.#audy#counterweight#counterweight prequel#fatt#friends at the table#probably my favourite so far but god the mood these all have is sooo good#what a great last paragraph. this really hits makes me glad i got thru most of my relisten before this
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Started the Counterweight prequel and I already love the energy of this game. They're not even playing yet and it's incredible.
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if austin walker had a cameo i would commission him to read all the counterweight prequel descriptions aloud
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just finished winter in hieron yesterday and unrelatedly to that was thinking sooo much about counter/weight the past couple days and was like . whoa... what if i relistened to counter/weight soon its been so long. which is objectively just like. a crazy idea with how long getting through podcasts takes me and how long twilight mirage is and how excited ive been to get back to new divine cycle stuff after so long (my listening order was c/w -> autumn in hieron -> marielda -> winter and i listened to counterweight from august 2021 to march 2022)
i am at least gonna listen to the counter/weight prequel episodes after i finish the winter in hieron postmortem though so that will be exciting
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