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Since you mentioned that you have read a lot in the Silco parent tag, do you have some recs by any chance?

Or any portrayals you found particularly striking or that surprised you?

Sorry for the very delayed reply, I wanted format this rec list properly so it's taken a while! :D Notes are from me.

Parent(ish) Silco Fic Recs!

In Vaulted Halls, Emtombed by Augustsea

Silco takes Viktor in when he's a little older than in Devotions; lots of protective vibes and siblinghood with Powder. It's pretty much canon-Sil. While I am ehhh about Jayce being a cop, the author weaves a good story!!

The Guest by awkwardapologetic

modern sil-adopts-viktor oneshot, so sweet. Vik is grown up in this one. Soft dad Sil.

Decisions Are Happening Dinner by Lil_Munchkin

Vampire / Werewolf high-fantasy AU. I'm v picky with high-fantasy AUs but I think this one is so well done. Sil took Viktor in when he's a bit older than Devotions, and the relationship is a lot more fraught / toxic. Wonderful character study (I feel). Also i adore protective sister Powder!!! Rife with betrayal etc.

So This Is Love by hauntedhouses

some parts of this is OOC but honestly, i don't care because ;A; protective Sil. Read with fairy-tale expectations! A lovely story.

Crystals and Cogs by WanderingAether

age-different AU, where Vik and Powder are similar ages and both adopted by Sil. I personally feel differently about how Sil would react to various events in this story but that doesn't take away from enjoyment. love love love the family exploration. I think sil is closer to Powder here?

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Young Silco concept art/character design in Arcane: Bridging the Rift | Part 3 - Killstreaks Meet Keyframes

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Exchange Event Information

Hello everyone! We're here to present and provide all the information for our Vanco Halloween Exchange event! Sign-ups will be open from June 15 to June 29th.

We have a carrd that covers all the information in this post! The card has the FAQ, for questions you may need clarification on. If your question is not listed there, please comment, ask, or send a message.

This event is for those 18+ only. You can see more information below the cut 👇

Vanco (Vander/Silco) will be the focus of the exchange event, though background ships are welcome.

You can choose between creating artwork or fanfic based on your gifter's prompts, it's up to you.

Discord will be our primary method of communication, with the works hosted on an AO3 collection. If you don't have an AO3 account but would like to participate, please let us know and we can arrange an invitation for you.

Here's the Discord Server Invite Link! Come join us if you'd like to participate and be pinged immediately when the sign-up form is released.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns through the blog's asks or leave a comment on this post!

Schedule

Gift Requirements

Gifters will be making gifts in their preferred form of media, which can range from poems, fics, fanart, comics, and more. These are only minimum requirements, not maximum limits. Have fun with that! ☆ Fanart Minimum: Fully lined with flat colours. ☆ Fanfic Minimum: 1,000 words. ☆ Poem Minimum: 300 words. Please ensure your gift is appropriately tagged according to Ao3’s tagging guidelines. If you create art for the exchange, it will also have to be uploaded as a work to Ao3. If you need a tutorial to add artwork to an AO3 work, you can check out this link.

Signing Up

Participants will fill out a Google Form, listing what they like and dislike as both the gifter (what you give) and giftee (what you receive). In this form, you will list your boundaries and interests for your gifter to avoid (boundaries) or include (interests) within their gift. You can optionally provide prompts to inspire your gifter, though it is not expected that they follow it to the letter. Once matching is complete, you will know who you’re making a gift for, but you will not know who is making a gift for you.  It is crucial to not contact the person (or people) you are making gifts for. Remain anonymous until the creator reveals on October 31st.

Progress Check-In Requirements

Check-In #1: Creators should be able to show progression. Authors can submit drafts or snippets. Artists can submit sketches and thumbnails. Check-In #2: Authors should have 500 words (fic) or 150 words (poem) to submit. Artists should have started on their lineart process.

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I might be forgetting smth but i think Snotlout is the only character in all of httyd that breaks the 4th wall

Multiple times

• He smiles at the camera at the end of Quake, Rattle and Roll

• He looks directly in the camera when he refers to Hiccup and Astrids relationship as "Hiccstrid"

• He plays true crime narrator and talks to the camera when they're looking for Chicken

• He makes a reference to his death in the books during Malas trials by saying "what's one little arrow gonna do" (that one's debatable to be fair)

Considering that the twins are usually the ones doing the more meta jokes and they just get given random bits to do in most episodes it i do wonder why only Snotlout ever breaks the 4th wall

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Bellyache (terminal)

This is the exact vibe i'm going for with this

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Harp seal mermaid Snotlout.... harp seal mermaid Snotlout save me....

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Writing Femoral Anteversion

From someone who has it! I figured people who're writing Viktor (or anyone else you'd like to bestow this condition onto) might find this helpful.

For anyone who doesn't know, Viktor is theorized to have severe Femoral Anteversion in his right leg. Mine is not quite as severe as his is, but it's enough to cause problems. Currently my condition has me considering buying a cane at the ripe old age of 22, which is a few years younger than Viktor was in Season 1 Act 1.

Femoral Anteversion looks like this:

This can happen in one or both legs. I have it in both, but it's far worse in my left leg. Viktor's seems to be mainly in his right leg. To be clear, this is NOT the same thing as his lung disease, though it likely exacerbates that disease a bit. The anteversion very likely worsens the problems with his back, but isn't necessarily the cause. Now, lets get into it!

What is Femoral Anteversion?

A wonderful post by @ihavea-natural-curiosity explained that all here, so I'll leave it to that person to explain what it is.

What is it like to have Femoral Anteversion?

Depending on the severity/treatments done for it, it can range from barely noticeable to a constant pain. If we put that on a scale, I'd say my right leg is at a 2-3, and my left is at around a 7-8. Viktor is likely at a 9-10 on his right leg. 8 on a good day.

General Pain Sites: mainly are in the knee, the hip, and lower back. Pain is worsened by long periods of standing, or long periods of sitting. Basically if its in one position for too long, it hurts. For me, it's difficult in school when I have to sit for a long time, and at work, where I stand a long time. Viktor may have more flexibility as he can stand or sit at his job whenever he wants, though if he's low energy that day, sitting for a long time may be his only option.

If standing for too long: (for me that's more than half and hour to an hour, for Viktor it may be more like 15 minutes), pain will start in the lower back, typically on the side of the bad leg, and with each step that spot on the lower back will pop. It's rather uncomfortable, doesn't relieve much pain the way popping a joint normally does. Pain from standing too long tends to be in the lower back, below the kneecap, and on the side of the hip, in the center between the front and back half of the body

If sitting for too long: typically the pain sites change slightly depending on the position, but often it's in the back of the hip, the lower back, and above the kneecap. Sometimes there may also be awkward positions sitting when trying to keep weight off that leg, which ends up hurting your upper back or shoulders too.

Painless: The only position I've found to be completely painless when in it for a long time is laying down on my back, with a pillow under the knees. Takes ALL the strain and weight off of those joints so it doesn't hurt. Only annoying bit is sometimes the REST of my body gets tired of being in that position anyways. I really only do this if it's hurting pretty bad that day because I can't really do anything while laying down like this. Even being on your phone is annoying cuz your arms get tired eventually.

Treating Femoral Anteversion

There's a bunch of treatments for it, the main ones are physical therapy, a brace, and a surgery. Typically none of these are needed because this usually happens in children, most of whom grow out of it. In the people who don't, physical therapy, a brace, and/or surgery may be needed.

The Brace

They usually hug the thigh as the problem is in the femur, the thigh bone. The reason Viktor likely doesn't have one of the top two may be either:

1. Pain, the braces can be rather painful, and with anteversion as severe as his it may have been too much

and/or

2. It may have interfered with his back brace. The bottom brace doesn't work as well, but it is certainly far better than nothing.

To be clear, the most comfortable position for someone with femoral anteversion to be in is with their toes pointed inward. So the brace is not necessarily actually for comfort, it is for overall health. They're rather painful as it forces you're muscles, tendons, and literally bones, to be in a different position than they are naturally. Braces for adults would also have to be worn most hours of the day, and likely forever. In children the brace is taken off after they have grown enough that the anteversion is corrected, but in adults they are done growing, so it must be worn as much as possible.

Generally a brace is not actually the go-to form of treatment for adults, as physical therapy works better and is less uncomfortable for the patient.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy for femoral anteversion will look like a lot of leg exercises to strengthen the outer leg muscles that will help correct the direction of the femur. It's very possible Viktor does these, or did them when he had the strength. When his disease got worse he may not have had the energy, but if he ever saw a PT in Piltover to help with his leg then they likely had him do exercises every day, possibly in the morning and at night with how severe his case was.

Stopping the exercises would likely mean the leg returns to its previous condition, as the muscles would no longer be maintained and would grow weaker again with time. In which case, the brace would help, and is possibly why Viktor has a brace in act 2 of season 1, but not in act 1.

Surgery

This surgery is called Femoral Osteotomy, and is a rather invasive one as it will change the direction of your whole femur, thus the direction of your whole leg. People often need walkers after this surgery, and can definitely come with complications. The reason Viktor didn't get this done is almost certainly because of his disease. A lung disease increases the risk of complications exponentially, especially with something as invasive as this surgery.

Disclaimer: I personally haven't actually had any of these treatments because I cannot afford them at the moment, though I'm hoping to go into physical therapy soon. The treatment order tends to go PT, brace, and surgery as a last resort.

Daily Life with Femoral Anteversion

Honestly, for most people with this, there's not much difference. They may not even feel any pain. My right leg technically also has femoral anteversion, but rarely hurts. But for people with a more intense case, like my left leg, or Viktor's right leg, there's a few things that can be different, so here's a list of some things that I do because of my femoral anteversion, that might be interesting to include in your writing:

Constantly correcting the direction of the foot. It becomes an unconscious correction after months of practicing, but occasionally it will still happen that you have to consciously move and correct it

Some days hurt worse than others! It can be just how you wake up that morning, or it can be due to activities done that day

Constantly cracking the bad knee. Especially when sitting or standing for too long. I crack my knee probably every few minutes or so when I'm standing for more than 5 minutes

Leaning elbows on a table, crossing the legs at the ankle, and leaning the torso side to side to get a stretch in the hip and potentially pop the lower back. Even deeper stretch by letting the elbows go below the table top and balancing by holding onto the table with just the fingertips.

When turning around, forgetting to move the bad leg too so it ends up turning almost completely backwards. This doesn't hurt, but as soon as I do it I often think "Aw fuck I'm not supposed to do that". Sometimes this makes you trip too.

Tripping over the bad foot when it gets in the way

Massaging or gently hitting the bad knee and hip to help the pain

Preemptively taking painkillers when anticipating a lot of walking or standing. May also do this for sitting, like on a plane or long train ride

It's hard to pop the hip but when it does happen it's both rather painful and instant pain relief. Very similar to popping a shoulder that's been annoying all day

Getting something warm to put on the knee and hip to help with pain. My favorite thing is the Warmies stuffed animals, the added weight feels good too

If without a cane/crutch, or somewhere to sit, then leaning heavily on tables, walls, and railings when in pain. Limping when you can't do that

Pushing the bad leg out to the side to get a good stretch in the hip (In the sexual sense, having the knees spread far apart for a long time would end up painful. Shorter sessions will be fine, but the best positions for something lasting a long time would be ones where the bad leg can be resting on something at a 90° angle or wider at both the hip and knee. A pillow under the knee works perfect. If on top, the person would likely end up leaning on the good leg, and leaning on the bed/a pillow/the other person with their arms to take the weight off the bad leg)

Constantly changing sitting position, generally every 5 minutes, give or take depending on how bad the pain is that day

Sleeping on the side with a pillow or blanket between the knees

Would secretly really really love for someone else to massage your leg because it's so difficult to get the right spots by yourself, especially in your hip.

Aaaaand that's about it! Feel free to ask any questions!

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─ Hisham Siddiqi

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T’s Masterlist of AU Ideas

Need some inspiration for your next fanfic? Here are a list of ideas I’ve compiled to help you get started! There are also a few sub-AUs I included just because :)

BY ERA…

50s AU

80s AU

Ancient Egypt AU

Cold War AU

Medieval AU

Dark/Middle Ages

Renaissance

Regency AU

Revolutionary War AU

Roaring 20s AU

Stone Age AU

Tudor AU

Victorian AU

World War I AU

World War II AU

BY GENRE…

Apocalypse AU

Dystopian AU

Fairy Tale AU

12 Dancing Princesses

Aladdin / Arabian Nights

Beauty & the Beast

Cinderella

Hansel & Gretel

Jack & the Beanstalk

Peter Pan

Rapunzel

Rumplestiltskin

Sleeping Beauty

Snow Queen

Snow White

The Frog Prince

The Little Mermaid

The Prince/Princess & the Pauper

The Princess & the Pea

Thumbelina

High Fantasy AU

Horror AU

Mafia AU

Military AU

Musical AU

Mystery AU

Noir AU

Pirate AU

Sci-Fi AU

Shakespeare AU

Superhero AU

Supernatural/Paranormal AU

Time Travel AU

Urban Fantasy AU

Utopian AU

Wild West AU

BY COUPLE…

Airplane Passengers AU

Aristocrat/Commoner AU

Arranged Marriage AU

Artist/Muse AU

Author/Publisher AU

Body Swap AU

Childhood Sweethearts AU

Chosen One & Sidekick AU

Complete Opposites AU

Doctor/Patient AU

Hades & Persephone AU

Handcuffed Together AU

Lab Partners AU

Neighbors AU

Pen Pals AU

Personality Switch AU

Rockstar/Groupie AU

Roommates AU

Royalty/Servant AU

Soldier/Nurse AU

Soulmates AU

Teacher/Student AU

Tourist/Native AU

BY MOVIE / BOOK / SHOW / GAME / PLAY / BALLET…

Battle Royale AU

Breakfast Club AU

Chronicles of Narnia AU

Dirty Dancing AU

Giselle AU

Hogwarts AU

Inception AU

Jumanji AU

Les Miserables AU

La La Land AU

Middle Earth AU

Nutcracker AU

Pacific Rim AU

Phantom of the Opera AU

Star Trek AU

Star Wars AU

Swan Lake AU

Swiss Family Robinson AU

Terminator AU

Wonderland AU

BY CHARACTER TYPE…

Android AU

Archaeologist AU

Assassin AU

Astronaut AU

Celebrity AU

Cosplayer AU

Criminal AU

Dancer AU

Demon Slayer AU

Detective AU

Double Agent AU

Explorer AU

Fallen Angel AU

Fighter Pilot AU

Guardian Angel AU

Hacker AU

Musician AU

Nerd/Geek AU

Olympic Athlete AU

Photographer AU

Private Eye AU

Punk AU

Race Car Driver AU

Revolutionary AU

Royalty AU

Street Performer AU

Tsundere AU

Tutor AU

Viking AU

Yandere AU

BY MYTHOLOGY / LEGENDS / FABLES…

Atlantis AU

Egyptian Gods AU

El Dorado AU

Fountain of Youth AU

Greek Gods AU

King Arthur AU

Norse Gods AU

Robin Hood AU

BY SUPERNATURAL / PARANORMAL ENTITY…

Angel AU

Banshee AU

Demigod AU

Demon AU

Genie AU

Ghost AU

Mermaid AU

Siren AU

Werewolf AU

Vampire AU

Zombie AU

BY HOLIDAY…

Christmas AU

Fourth of July AU

Halloween AU

Hanukkah AU

New Years AU

Spring Break AU

Thanksgiving AU

MISCELLANEOUS…

Backpacking Across Europe AU

Battle of the Bands AU

Bookshop AU

Carnival AU

Circus AU

Coffeeshop AU

College AU

“We got paired up for a group project but none of us know what we’re doing”

Conspiracy AU

Dragons AU

Heist AU

High School AU

Summer School

Immortal AU

Kidnapped AU

Prison AU

Reincarnation AU

Road Trip AU

Seven Deadly Sins AU

Summer Camp AU

Time Travel AU

FOR HUMOR…

“Marry me because my green card expired” AU

“Why does by neighbor have to be an aspiring opera singer?” AU

“I’m a server and you’re a frequent customer and you flirt with me but YOU NEVER TIP ME, WHAT THE HELL MAN?” AU

“I never break the law but I was asked to be part of a massive heist and damn, I really need to pay off my student debt…” AU

“I lied and said I could speak a different language to impress my crush but now he wants me to tutor him so I need to become fluent in Mandarin in 3 days HELP” AU

“We are fictional characters that know we are fictional characters and so we decided to have a little fun and mess with the author by not following any of the tropes they’re writing” AU

[Updated 8/21/17]

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Innovators competition prize winning photo

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Masterlist of Writing Prompt Masterlists

Here there be my compilations of writing prompts I've found over the years.

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part One

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Two

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Three

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Four

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Five

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Six

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Seven

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Eight

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Nine

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Ten

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Eleven

Writing Prompt Masterlist, Part Twelve

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You know what's dangerous? Young!Silco + a motorcycle.

No one would stand a chance.

you're so right anon

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Writing Ideas: Madness

tropes involving madness or insanity

Becoming the Mask: A façade permanently warps a personality.

Black Bug Room: The place inside a person's mind where all of their negative feelings dwell and fester.

Cabin Fever: Being stuck in a small place for too long a time.

Cast from Sanity: Magic or a superpower makes you lose sanity every time it's used.

Cutting Back to Reality: A character's insanity is illustrated by seeing a situation through their eyes, before cutting back to what's actually happening in the real world.

Damaged Soul: Death and resurrection has damaged a person.

Delusion Conclusion: Audience members believe that the supernatural elements of a story are due to delusions on the part of the viewpoint characters.

Devil Complex: A character believes themselves to be Satan and acts accordingly.

Happy Place: An imaginary space inside your head where everything is well.

In the Dreaming Stage of Grief: Devastated character copes by convincing themselves it is/was just a bad dream.

Living Doll Collector: Mere toys are not enough for this person.

Mad Dreamer: They reject your reality and substitute their own.

Mistaken for Insane: Someone who's sane, but is mistaken for being insane.

Mummies at the Dinner Table: A character is dead, but someone tries to pretend – and actually believe – that they are still alive.

Ocean Madness: Isolation while stuck on an uninhabited island or boat drives someone mad.

Restoration of Sanity: A character suffering from insanity regains their sanity by the story's end.

The Caligula: A ruler who is insane.

Treacherous Spirit Chase: A character is led into danger by a hallucination of loved one(s).

Went Crazy When They Left: A character becomes emotionally unstable when away from someone they're attached to.

Windmill Crusader: Being obsessed with attacking an enemy that doesn't exist.

Source ⚜ More: References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs