#*hades game

Tagged by @vcaudley to post the last seven lines of my current WIP Tagging @101flavoursofweird (and also tagging back @vcaudley if you want it) These are from the start of the next chapter of 'when king minos stole away the bull': --- Zagreus stops to take a breath. He needs to think. The weight of two choices are hanging over him, but while they both feel equally pressing, there is a right answer. As much as he hates to leave Hypnos and Pasithea suspended in their current states, Zagreus trusts that Hypnos is strong enough to do this. Besides, Hypnos would want him to carry on to find Asterius, who could be in a much more dire condition. That’s what he has to do. Now that he’s found his resolve, Zagreus feels confident about this. He turns back towards the brothers - Phobetor looking up at him with pleading eyes and Morpheus with indifference - and crouches down to talk to them.

As Zagreus rounds the corner, the sight that greets him is indeed Theseus, stood in front of the desk of Zagreus’s father and waving his arms around dramatically as he speaks. -Untitled TheseZag WIP No hits for Plea or Cat - which is shocking and I should fix this at some point :0 I tag @101flavoursofweird @vcaudley and anyone with WIPs who wants to do this. Your words are: Now, Then, Day, Night

Tagged by the excellent @vcaudley Rules: Post seven sentences from your latest WIP and then tag (up to) seven people to do the same. ...Turns out my lastest WIP is almost entirely smut. But I managed to comb through it and find seven sentences bunched together with no smut in them lmao --- “You saw Aphrodite?” This time, it’s Megaera who speaks up. Hypnos isn’t sure when she appeared, but the sight of her standing there, raising an eyebrow at him, makes Hypnos feel hotter than he already is. It’s a good thing for Hypnos that Zagreus is a lot more casual, patting the empty chair next to them. “Hey Meg, do you want to join us? Hypnos was just telling me about what he got up to during the feast.” “Didn’t Hypnos sleep through the feast?” Meg chuckles, though she does take the seat offered to join them. “Well… most of it,” Hypnos admits, “Almost all of it.” --- I tag @101flavoursofweird @pandirpus @krokonoko @sweveris and anyone else who has a current WIP and wants to do this

I did this meme at the end of 2021 and enjoyed looking at my stats, so I thought I’d do it again for this year. Word count for the year: 229,620 ...Which is actually a lot more than last year, even though I thought that I’d written less. However, some of this isn’t entirely accurate, as I was able to post zine pieces written in 2021 publicly in 2022 and I’m too lazy to subtract them from the total. In 2023 there will also be zine pieces that were written in 2022 being posted (and in one case, 2021, for a zine that keeps getting delayed...) Number of stories posted to Ao3: 20 (two less than the previous year) Pairings written for: Bill/Ford (Gravity Falls) The rest is all Hades Game: Zagreus/Theseus/Asterius Dionysus/Ariadne Theseus/Asterius Zagreus/Momus (OC) Theseus/Zagreus (a lot) Momus/Icarus (both OCs) Charon/Hermes Dionysus/Hypnos Zagreus/Dusa Hades/Persephone Ares/Skelly (the best!) Zagreus/Hypnos/Theseus Artemis/Callisto Nyx/Persephone Nyx/Athena Zagreus/Perilous Foes Fandoms I wrote for: Hades Game Gravity Falls Original Most popular story: I added a one year anniversary bonus chapter to “the prince with specific tastes; the king with specific regrets”, so that continues to be my most popular fic. Story I’m most proud of: Even though it was actually written in 2021 and only posted this year, I feel like it has to be “when ares met skelly” because it all came together so beautifully and was just so punchy and funny. Not to mention it has an amazing podfic based on it. Funniest: Same as above. Kinkiest: Uhhh probably “zagreus learns how to degrade hypnos (with help from theseus)” by virtue of having the most sex in it. The title explains it all, really. Saddest:  Some of the chapters of my original horror short stories, “Road to Longhanglington” are quite sad. But outside of that I didn’t write many sad stories this year compared to last year. Least Popular: “Theseus forgets not to be an asshole” got the least amount of views. It’s a short drabble about Theseus abandoning Ariadne on Naxos, which I guess I’ve just written about enough times before that everyone was bored of me writing it haha. The twist this time is that it was from Theseus’s POV instead of Ariadne’s though. Most Cringe-Worthy: I am cringe and free. Favorite Opening Line(s): “There hadn’t been a Dusa here, or anything remotely like a Dusa, back when Persephone had first lived in the underworld.” Taken from “caretaker of caretakers”. Favorite Closing Line(s): “ Thus, on the beckoning call of Chaos, Zagreus and Theseus jump.” Taken from “zagreus’s zany time travel antics (guest-starring long-haired theseus)” and perhaps my favourite because it is the one I’ve most recently written and was the end of a long and satisfying project. Top Scenes from Anywhere You Would Choose to Have Illustrated: I honestly feel that my answers to this question from last year carry over to this year, but for scenes specifically from fics written this year: From “zagreus’s zany time travel antics (guest-starring long-haired theseus)”: - Zagreus & Theseus diving into the chaos portal together at the end of the fic - Any of the scenes with Momus & Icarus ...And that’s it for specifics. Literally any art at all based on my fics would make me immensely happy. Story I haven’t yet written, but intend to: At the moment, I just intend to wrap up any unfinished Hades Game projects that I have in preparation for Hades II coming out, since I want to have my table cleared and ready for all of the new brainworms that game will surely give me. I’ve actually managed to do do this for the most part, so there are just a few oneshots left (and one larger project that I may just not go ahead with). As a side note, I’m pleased to say that I achieved two of my three writing goals that I set for myself at the end of 2021 and both of them were the bigger ones: I did indeed write that full TheseZag time travel fic this year and I also wrote a bonus anniversary chapter to “specific tastes; specific regrets” to cap off the plot threads about the reunions between Asterius & Ariadne and Theseus & Aegeus. The only one I didn’t get written was the self-indulgent Dionysus/Momus fic, but I suppose self-indulgence should happen when it happens instead of being planned for. Fic-writing goals for 2023: Same as above, again. I know for sure that I have one TheseZag oneshot left to finish writing and several horror short stories that I might pick up again when inspiration strikes. But I don’t want to make too many big plans for myself when Hades II might render all of my fanfics to strictly fanon in the very near future. I’m more excited to wait and see what it gives me to work with. No pressure if you don’t want to do this, but I’m tagging @101flavoursofweird @crownofariadne @sweveris @krokonoko and @pandirpus

Phantasos glares for a moment, flying up even higher, only to turn and charge at the two of them. He barges through the middle, causing Hypnos and Pasithea to let go of each other’s hands and jump away. “Aww, you really think you’re stronger together, don’t you?” Phantasos goads, spinning around to face them, “But I can see into your fantasies. I know that’s not how you really feel. It’s just a pretty act!”