It’s ok nonny!! I accept any and all asks regarding my writing lol

It’s uhhh honestly I haven’t been writing it atm :T I finished chapter... 9? 10? And have kinda been a bit stuck since >.< I also haven’t had the motivation between work, school, and other obligations in my real life ;-;

Good news is I am 1/3 done with it tho so there’s that. Bad news is that I haven’t worked on it this year at all really. I def wanna get back to it but am having some struggles

Pairing: Graham Humbert x Reader

Characters: Graham Humbert, Ruby Lucas

Warnings: N/A

Request: N/A

Word Count: 501

Author: Hannah

Only... 25 to go... it’ll just take me another 5 years riiippppppp

Also I’m gathering music up again so I may drop a playlist by the end of the year 👀

To be fair, last year I didn’t write at all bc I feel in r bad depression and a huge funk that made me unable to write...

I’m kinda back to debating whether or not I should actually start posting again before it’s finished to see how the reception would be or if I should continue to wait...

Hm, decisions decisions all around...

For a second, he stood still above the congregation-like mass, his words dripping with succulent promises of prestige. His heart bled for such poor and pitiful fools, yet only for a second.

For as soon as they pulled their swords and sharpened their loyalty to him, his pity fell, and a wicked grin replaced such doubts. 

Since I was asked to share my process of creating Tad Strange in LiaFt, I thought I would write a little about him! 

Tad Strange is/was a popular fan character that originated from a leak. From only his name, everyone went wild with theories with who he could be (possibly another demon?) and what roll he could play in Gravity Falls. 

Of course, Tad Strange came to be nothing more than a punchline, but his fanon-self lived on even after the truth came out. Such an interesting fanon character became popular in fanfiction. Oftentimes, Tad Strange was cast as an antagonist of Bill Cipher’s and could either be “good” compared to Bill, or even more “evil” than our favorite dream demon. 

Seeing these ideas played out, I decided to try and do something a wee bit different when I had Tad Strange to play with. Rather than a villain, I decided to cast him as Bill’s “brother,” and his closest comrade. From there, I decided to make Tad a sort of “foil” to Bill to balance out Bill’s shenanigans. 

Whereas Bill knows nothing about the world and is trigger-happy, to say the least, Tad is a lot more cautious and knowledgeable. 

However, like his brother, Tad is also a master manipulator. Unlike Bill, however, Tad rarely manipulates humans and other’s unless he severely dislikes them and needs some form of information. And while Bill lies, cheats, and will get close to someone just to betray them, Tad uses his ability to read other’s emotions to his advantage and doesn’t usually go as far as Bill does. While Bill holds himself up to be this divine and powerful being, Tad is more akin to hide his power instead and use his relatability to get what he wants. That being said, Tad is weaker than Bill. 

In the old version of LiaFt, magic-users tend to gravitate toward certain elemental alignments that can color a lot of their spellcasting. For example, Bill is aligned with fire. Dipper is a bit too young of a spellcaster, but he was also going to align with fire. Meanwhile, Tad gravitated toward earth instead due to his down-to-earth and cautious nature compared to Bill. A lot of his magic appeared to be earth-based for that reason. An example of this is their teleportation; Bill had a flash of fire follow him while Tad had a whirlwind of dust. Likewise, if Tad were to make a deal, rather than fire, a crusting of mud and earth would instead cover his hand and stick to the mortal’s hand during the speaking of the deal. I haven’t completely decided whether I will be moving this mechanic to the newer version... so we’ll see! Besides that, I think I covered his powers quite nicely. 

I was actually surprised with how much love Tad got in LiaFt. I was afraid most wouldn’t find him too interesting or would wish he were in a different role. But the love and support for Tad really overwhelmed me! Even when he was first introduced, a lot of people immediately told me how much they liked him! From there, I knew I wanted to play around with him more and expand on him as well!

While I tried to characterize Bill as a bit of a “dreamer;” someone who lives in his own fantasy and wishes to use his powers to bring whatever he wishes to life, Tad instead wants to mold reality to his will and use everything he has at his disposal to get what he wants. 

i have like. an actual and official post drafted for this but like..... i have so many WIPs i dont r wanna add another ;;;;;;;;;;; im actually quite torn on the subject 

tho also, in my experience, a lot of ppl get bitter and angry if you mention turning an AU and already mostly original ff into like. original fiction in GENERAL 

even if i dont plan on making money off it lmfao 

so. yeah. idk. i dont r like leaving stuff unfinished but at the same time ive kinda moved past the ouatt and i feel like a lot of ppl have as well?? which is why i dont r feel the need to, atm, make it original