Mm… The Urge To Give My Comfort Characters Wings And Extra Trauma Is Strong.

Jumpscare! More Winged goober AUs!

Plucking Feathers (589 words) by Nadia_Witch Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hunter | The Golden Guard/Willow Park, Amity Blight/Luz Noceda, Hunter | The Golden Guard & Gus Porter, Luz Noceda & Willow Park & Gus Porter, Amity Blight & Hunter | The Golden Guard Characters: Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Willow Park, Gus Porter, Luz Noceda, Amity Blight Additional Tags: Ficlet Collection, Ficlet, Inspired by Maximum Ride, Unethical Experimentation, Experimentation, Winged Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Wings, Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Hunter | The Golden Guard Needs a Hug (The Owl House), Hunter | The Golden Guard-centric (The Owl House), Hunter | The Golden Guard and Luz Noceda are Siblings (The Owl House), Good Friend Willow Park, Buff Willow Park, Hunter | The Golden Guard and Gus Porter are Siblings (The Owl House), Good Friend Gus Porter, Good Friend Amity Blight, Good Friend Luz Noceda, Luz Noceda Needs a Hug, Smug Luz Noceda, Luz Noceda is a Little Shit, During Timeskip in Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House) Summary: A collection of ficlets where Hunter gets the Maximum Ride treatment! Experiment AU + Winged!Hunter AU

@whumpril

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Five Nights at Freddy's Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Cassie (Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: Ruin DLC) & Gregory, Cassie (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach: Ruin DLC) & Roxanne Wolf, Cassie & Roxanne Wolf, Cassie and Roxy Characters: Gregory (Five Nights at Freddy's), Cassie (Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: Ruin DLC), Vanessa A. | Ness, Roxanne Wolf (Five Nights at Freddy's), The Mimic (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex), Glamrock Freddy (Five Nights at Freddy's) Additional Tags: Post-Betrayal, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Revenge, Near Death Experiences, Ending Fix, Evil Gregory, Cassie deserved better, Gregory call out fic, Calling Gregory out, Cassie’s happy ending, Gregory the murderer, Roxy is underrated, Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex, Freddy betrayal, Elevator ending, Ruin DLC Spoilers, Neutral Ending Summary:

After his betrayal of his best friend, Gregory seems to move on, not really thinking too much about it. Until she comes back. Cassie isn’t happy and wants Gregory to pay for attempting to kill her.

Here’s y’all’s food @halogenrobotics and @theinsanefoxwriter

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Five Nights at Freddy's Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ellie (FNAF: Security Breach - Breached) & Gregory, Ellie (FNAF: Security Breach - Breached) & Oswald (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into The Pit) Characters: Gregory (Five Nights at Freddy's), Oswald (Five Nights At Freddy's: Fazbear Frights: Into The Pit), Ellie (FNAF: Security Breach - Breached) Additional Tags: Whumptober, Whumptober 2024, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - ‘Breached’, Game: Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (2021), Game: Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit (2024), Sentient Animatronics (Five Nights at Freddy's), Robot Kids (Five Night’s at Freddy’s), Blood and Injury, Inspired by Maximum Ride, Wings, Evil Scientists - Freeform, laboratory, Sick Character, Science Experiments, Anxious Oswald (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into The Pit), Hurt Gregory (Five Nights at Freddy’s), BAMF Ellie (FNAF - Breached), Exhausted Ellie (FNAF - Breached), Protective Ellie (FNAF - Breached), Protective Siblings, Siblings Series: Part 9 of Trauma Time: Whumptober 2024 Summary:

Ellie, the only one of the trio uninjured, feels the need to take care of her friends. Unfortunately, Oswald had been keeping secrets that makes Ellie worried more.

*SB AU called ‘Breached’ (you don’t have to know what happens to understand this one shot. If you want, you can find the comic on my Tumblr of the same username)

 Whumptober 2024 Day: 16 Prompt: “No, I can’t feel anything” + necrosis

Just thought I should throw this out there (:

@theinsanefoxwriter

Huntlow Kiss Anniversary

Happy Valentine's Day and happy one year since Willow kissed Hunter! It may not be canon, but it is something us Huntlow/Winter fans still very much love.

I hope Hunter and Willow have a good Valentine's day today, Hunter carving a heart for his love while Willow picks some flowers for him. I love Huntlow a lot...

The scenes towards the end of the finale were like an intersection of multiple characters experiencing the loss of father figures, in different shades:

Luz's relationship to her late father took on a different form, after King's own father passed on and his glyph magic was gone for good. Manny gifting her the Azura books before his death, and Papa Titan offering her glyph magic before he too passed on, helped Luz find her place in the world and defeat Belos.

Apparently this scene is what made Sarah Nicole-Robles bawl in the recording studio, right after she recorded the lines.

When these changes happen - when we experience the loss of a person, when our ties with them are wrangled into a new form, against our will - it can be devastatingly painful. Change and transformation make for fancy, dramatic scenes in fiction, and they always incur loss in some form, painful or not. It also made me so emotional when seeing how much 18-year-old Luz resembles Manny, and how her enrolment in the university is linked to both her biological father and Papa Titan.

King's experience of seeing the majesty of his father, however brief, left him in awe and exhilaration. He can rest in the beautiful knowledge that Papa Titan was watching over him the whole time too. The message that his dad left him, relayed by Luz, is something he'll hold dear forever.

Hunter will never be truly harmed by Belos ever again. But he can't discard the memories of Belos granting him attachment: even if the attachment ended up not being real in a sense. However, like what can be applied in real-life therapy, he can get guidance on how to rescript those memories.

Belos's lies about having good intentions don't change how it felt real to Hunter all those years ago. Hunter was a young child when receiving this 'love', and in a twisted way...the mission given to him by Belos kept him alive up till he could escape the Coven, because the mission gave his life meaning despite the circumstances being awfully terrible. A child cannot survive without attachment, and needs attachment even if the experience of attachment has been horrendous and scarring. And holy Titan don't get me started on how at age 16 (before the timeskip), he had yet to learn more grisly details about his predecessors - whom he might view as older brothers and fathers whom he never met - and the generational trauma in his Golden Guard family tree:

which would have definitely been explored before he could experience that amazing hard-won serenity and peace at age 20.

Even Philip's arc is inextricably tied to his manner of coping with how he murdered Caleb, who was the closest thing he had to a father, given how these two brothers were orphans. In the end, Philip meets his end while Luz gazes upon him the same way Caleb's ghost did. Philip won't be haunted by Caleb's ghost again, and he joins the person who was essentially his father figure in death. Till the very end, he was projecting onto another person because he didn't want to recognize the same traits in himself. He was the one responsible for his father figure's death.

But grief doesn't mean the relationships in question have ended altogether. It's kind of like what this post about the finale (link) says, and it even extends to the relationship between us fans and the show itself.

The cliché "5 Stages of Grief" is the most commonly mentioned grief model, but I follow the development and advocacy of a newer perspective on grief that challenges it. In fact, the 5 Stages was originally just intended for terminally ill patients, but it was taken out of proportion. I began a serious investigation into the newer models after I went through something that parallels Hunter losing Flapjack...eerily, it happened to me two weeks before TTT's release date. No wonder I feel so close to Hunter as a blorbo, I guess.

Unlike what the 5 Stages of Grief says, grief and linear time don't mix well. Without "stages" to follow, there isn't an expectation of some deadline or permanent end of a tunnel in the newer models. Such pressure wouldn't be honoring the sacredness of connections between us. Instead, less famous grief perspectives like the dual-process model and continuing bonds model, are a better fit to honor relationships that mattered, since they aren't given an expiry date.

I wonder how Luz would be feeling on the day she graduates from the Wild Magic University, and how King feels each time he unlocks his own new glyphs since he is the new Titan to supply the Isles with magic. And I wonder how Hunter felt when his coven sigil was replaced with the Flapjack tattoo, and how he feels when he sees the Gravesfield town seal and Wittebane statues.

There are ways in which they can get creative to integrate their grief (notice I didn't say "get rid of", "remove", "erase" or even "manage"...the pain is what is to be managed, not the grief itself) the best they can. In canon, we have examples such as the Hexsquad agreeing to get their Flapjack tattoos together. Luz letting go of the light glyph sheet here:

is also a fantastic representation of rituals like sending off a message in a bottle at a beach, tying a message to a balloon and letting it fly away (this happened in Reaching Out, didn't it?), or burning a message in a campfire to let it float up towards the sky in the form of embers.

It is a common recommendation to have exercises like letter-writing where the griever writes to the lost loved one. What many may not know is you can also do the reverse: you writing as your lost loved one, to yourself. Because the griever takes a piece of the lost loved one with them, that the griever has shaped within themselves. This is especially good if you need to extend forgiveness to yourself. An example from a book called Bearing the Unbearable:

The author felt responsible for the stillbirth of her child, but had a "happy accident" where she intuitively asked for forgiveness and then received it, by invoking the love that her child would have shown to her in a world where said child had remained alive.

I think Hunter in particular could benefit from something like this, writing to himself as the uncle whom he saw as genuine and nurturing, and gaining ownership of that part of him even though Belos was a liar and is now gone for good. It can help him move forward especially since he won't be spared from nightmares in which his loss is re-enacted. With this kind of rescripting, historical accuracy doesn't actually need to matter. After all, our own minds lie to us at times and mess with historical accuracy anyway, like Luz's thoughts telling her she was as bad as Belos, and how true that felt.

A physical loved one is lost to death, and it can feel just as painful - only in a different way - if people become estranged or separated without a literal death having occurred. But the connection to them isn't lost, it is only adapted. The bond continues. For better or worse.

I believe the pain in grieving is connected to each moment when we remember all over again that the one we loved isn't coming back.

It's like the needle of a gramophone getting stuck in the loop of an unpleasant-sounding record scratch noise. It's a bit like what C.S. Lewis says in his book A Grief Observed: "In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out." I can't find the other part but he later said something like, therefore if a friendship is lost, the part of you that only that friend could bring out, is also lost. Something in you is locked away forever, though new things can also be unlocked after the loss.

It wasn't shown onscreen but I wouldn't be surprised if it's regular for Luz to come across a meme and be freshly reminded of her dad's absence, because she can't show him that meme. King would be wishing that a new funny cat video he discovers is something his dad could also laugh at along with him. Hunter would be hoping that Flapjack, the previous Golden Guards and Caleb are watching as he brings back palismen.

Bereavement, and any grief that is significant enough to alter our personhood forever, are the forms of love that can never really grasp how time flows in a linear way. They can't be reasoned with, only experienced.

"...the howling at the center of grief is raw and real. It is love in its most wild form" - Megan Devine.

You have… no clue how much I needed to hear that-

(Especially that second one. I hate to admit it but I’m always a bit jealous of when some of my friends get fanart but I don’t. Art is how I show my appreciation for other’s works so, when I don’t have any, I just feel a bit sad TwT)

This is an appreciation post for the fanfic authors who aren’t included on rec lists

For the fanfic authors who don’t get art of their fics

For the fanfic authors who can’t get to 1000/500/100 hits

For the fanfic authors who don’t get comments/reviews

For the fanfic authors who write for small fandoms

For the fanfic authors who write rarepairs or gen fics

For the fanfic authors who get hate for the ships/characters/fandoms they write

For the fanfic authors who write in English despite it not being their first language

For the fanfic authors who don’t write in English

For the fanfic authors who don’t think anyone reads or likes their work

For the fanfic authors who aren’t big name fans

For the fanfic authors who don’t get requests in their inboxes

For the fanfic authors who can’t write stories that are more than a thousand words

For the fanfic authors who only write one ship

For the fanfic authors who are just starting

For the fanfic authors who have been writing fic for years

For the fanfic authors who use fanfic to practice writing

For the fanfic authors who write self-insert fics

For the fanfic authors who write about their OCs

For the fanfic authors who write to vent or cope

For the fanfic authors who are just waiting for their big break

Keep creating, I love you ❤️

Happy three years to the gayest scene in amphibia

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