Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

hey, werewolf thought of the day. i'm still not great at remembering what bel's autism is like, but what if bel's practice at managing overload and controlling his focus actually makes him really good at continuing to function intellectually through the dampening effect of the full moon? like what if a werewolf hanging around reading a book the night before a full moon is a really rare sight, even with college-educated werewolf nerds, just about everyone gives up and zones out. but bel's so used to there being a ton of noises and smells and distractions as a human he keeps on carrying on without thinking anything too unusual is going on. until someone is like 'okay, wait, what's up with you, how are you doing that.' it's always really great to find out something you didn't even notice you were good at turns out to be something nearly everyone else is phenomenally bad at.

 

by comparison, erskin's doing way better this month than usual, due to getting back in practice thinking and speaking with bel, but he already can barely fit letters' shapes together with their sounds, and on the day of the full moon he won't be able to understand more than one or two english words at a time. he'll be on the level of a service dog. regular human born werewolves would be doing better, but would be functioning at the level of a really drunk, really hyped frat boy in the middle of a party. they're not going to be fit to sit down and finish a book.

i would guess that pancho would spend day of the full moon having earnest i love you man conversations with everyone in between racing around everywhere just because everything is so fucking exciting woo! hopefully bel will be healed up enough for some jogging, or patient enough for some ear chewing. erskin will be going absolutely spare, stuck with a busted leg like that. poor bastard. maybe he can heal up enough by midnight.

eta: man if logan's mostly a backyard dog she's going to be having like, lifestyle whiplash. going from one or two busy, distracted, tired humans walking her to having to constantly run along after three fit, high-energy wolves? whew!

 

Hee, mercury showed me this neat little game, and I found a let's play of it, and the narrator's voice reminds me of Jethro, if Jethro narrated everything all the time:



"And then he falls to his death. ... I'm just foolin'."

 

oh no that ash dude's cute. his accent sounds jarringly similar to surfer boy to me tho— there must be some kind of phonetic overlap. i feel like i went to highschool with guys that sounded like that, but wore board shorts and vans and cowrie shell chokers.

 

that's so weird. like i guess california got filled up by people who came from further east, but you don't get that kind of accent in arizona or new mexico, that i know of. but it sounds totally familiar to me. there was a hispanic kid accent, a black kid accent, the tv newscaster blank accent everyone uses to sound professional, and then that white kid accent....

OH HEYO HERE WE GO: http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201211231630/a

the fucking dustbowl migration in the 30's. that's it. in the way that most american regional accents are slowed-down versions of their european counterparts, the surfer boy accent is a slowed-down-again midwestern plains— or at least borrows a big chunk from it.

i think i have to lie down and feel weirded out for awhile.

 

btw at some point when we surface from our respective fanfic frenzies, we should play some erskin/jethro stuff, they are too cute

 

yeah, i've been having fun talking aud and mercury's ears off about harry potter, myself. it's kind of like the way gum goes flavorless, being in a fandom too long— i hadn't really realized how stale and unfun even the wildest fic ideas for homestuck had gotten, but i've definitely enjoyed doing stuff for other fandoms most lately. i've got some ideas for star trek, too, but i need to get my hands on some novelizations before i take the plunge, i hate writing fic without direct source material on hand to reference. i've got like five tabs of the hp wiki open...

anyway, i'm super looking forward to seeing your fic, when it goes live! i'm hoping it'll be a bit like Rule of Transformation. you write clever dudes so well.

 

yay, thanks! i've been sitting on the idea for like a year. there was a cool meta post with this cracktheory that draco was actually a werewolf in sixth year, and it was fairly well supported by evidence! and my brain just kind of ran with that plus this other thing i noticed, which was all the HP fix-it has harry fixing it, and i think there's one or two with hermione, though mostly she goes back to make out with one or all of the marauders.

but like, a draco fix it fic has potential for some interesting new shenanigans. a draco fix-it where he's also got to juggle being a werewolf is something i can't remember seeing anyone do before in any fandom, which is make the fixer have a genuinely harder and more difficult time, the second time, than the first. like, the only handicap fixers ever seem to face is ptsd, and often they get to carry back adult-size powers to compensate. i just really enjoy the idea of someone replaying their life, thinking they're getting to cheat and it's all gonna be a snap and they'll get the high score, but then find out they've selected hard mode instead.

anyway, like. i feel like i've been thinking about harry potter and time travel for a good fifteen years now. so i guess now that i've finally got a fic to contribute, it's well-incubated.

also i'm doing a lot of 'this serves you right, you bigoted little shit' in terms of playing out draco's new social status. so far he mostly just feels really sorry for himself. i sincerely doubt he's going to be able to extrapolate 'i don't like being discriminated against' out to 'no one should discriminate against anyone!' when like most kids on tumblr can't manage it either.

but it's also fun to throw 'this boy is so incredibly racist' against 'let's say the wizarding world isn't heterosexist'. the idea of weasley, longbottom, and malfoy all looking totally blank the first time dean makes a fag joke is pretty appealing. the slytherin dorm was a pack of murderous supremacist children, but at least one of them had two daddies.

SORRY THIS GOT LONG I AM JUST, AS YOU MAY HAVE GUESSED, VERY ENTHUSED ABOUT SMOL WIZARDS

 

haha yeah! for sure. and of course there's some very direct parallels with eridan ampora. the sadistic streak, the self pity, the way he lashes out when deprived of things he thought he deserved... interestingly enough, though, on a reread of books 1-2, malfoy is funny. it's pretty much exclusively a bully's punching-down humor, but still, he's constantly being snide, making fun of people, doing mean impressions. he really likes people to laugh with him at whatever's made him mad (usually harry), as opposed to eridan, who has absolutely no sense of humor whatsoever about anything.

also, lucius malfoy is fucking ridiculous and doesn't know it, which is also funny. the dude clipped out a newspaper article about arthur weasley (who he previously got in a public fistfight with) getting in trouble, and he mailed it to his son just so they could both gloat. the malfoys are incredible people.

 

one of the things i really love about star wars AND harry potter is they're modern myths. like, we kind of get to just... have them, and retell them, and mess with them, and have totally common cultural touchpoints with them. it's always fun to mess around in fandoms that are so widely known and deeply examined.

 

yeah, absolutely, harry potter's complicated enough that even ten years later you throw a book on the ground and yell GODDAMN IT because something new has occurred to you. and a chunk of it is jkr putting stuff in herself in the first place, and another chunk is jkr being pressed into adding more on afterwards, and probably the biggest chunk is people just reading more into things and doing the layering themselves. sufficiently popular stories come alive and start rooting themselves like foldspace buildings, you know?

 

erskin: 'hi jethro do you want to spend a nice morning catching decadent highblood nibbles and maybe feeding me some by hand haha no homo tho'