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I COULDN'T HAVE DREAMT OF SUCH A WARM RECEPTION FROM YOU, MY ZAMONIAN ANGEL WITH IMMACULATE TASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👹👹👹👹👹👹 TYSM!!!!!!!!! I MEAN, HILDE'S FACE CLAIM HAS THIS VERY AUTHENTIC BRATTINESS TO HIM. AND HE CAN LOOK SO SPOILED. ALL THESE "LUXURY LIFESTYLE" HASHTAGS BASICALLY CLINGING ONTO HIM. AS FOR COLOSSUS'S FACE CLAIM..... NEED I SAY ANYTHING ELSE?????

ALSO OKDIJUHYGTFWYTUYIUOIJPD PLEASEEEE one of the human!AUs that i've been thinking of is something of a classical fae/fair folk AU in which Hilde is this sort of an old money heir brat who has a master's in literary science but who's been hanging around his university aimlessly for some scholar work just because it's convenient and because he wants to distract himself from the fact that he hasn't really felt any inspiration or had any good writing ideas yet. and Homuncolossus is secretly a fae, probably like a decrowned royalty, or the one true king(tm) who's been fucked over by some scheming evil guy (see: P. Smeik) and exiled into the human world. and Hilde has accidentally snatched one of the artifacts that Colossus needs to be able to keep living in this world under the guise of a human(OR to be able to go back and fuck shit up?). well, he needs to get this thing back, so he starts trailing Hilde, who's initially clueless but eventually starts noticing the same (imposing) man sort of following him around. and since Hilde's vain as fuck, his first thought probably is, "oh this one WANTS me. huh. well, who wouldnt?". and since eventually they do meet up and start communicating (because Hilde is hoping for some action and because Colossus still needs his thingy), at first Hilde's plan is to send mixed signals and to be charming and maybe just a tiny bit stubborn so that the mysterious hunk can one day fall to his knees and start sobbing about wanting Hilde uncontrollably and begging to be Hilde's boy toy. but as time goes by, Hilde keeps finding himself closer and closer to the position of the one sobbing on his knees 😭

zamfandom, how do you feel about human!AUs? and AUs in general? do you have any?? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE ANY DETAILS AND/OR HEADCANONS??????

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I cope in memes.

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I CAN'T STOP RUBBING MY EYES WITH A COMICAL SQUEAKY SOUND. WTF IS GOING ON

@friftar thank you so so so so much for the translation!!!!!!

New info on the upcoming Zamonia novel!

"Zamonia in another dimension: where reading becomes pure adventure

After falling through a dimensional portal, Qwerty, the jelly prince from the 2364th dimension, wakes up in the parallel universe Orméa. Annoyed he realises that he is stuck in the body and armour of an attractive knight he knows from pulp fiction: Prince Kaltbluth. It's no surprise that at once he has to free a damsel-in-distress that is being guarded by a three-headed monster. With his invisible rapier, he manages to free her - but the rescued maiden reveals herself as the Janus medusa who wants to turn all life to stone with her evil eye. From now on, Prince Kaltbluth has a knightly duty: he has to free Orméa from the unleashed medusa. Too bad that he happened to have fallen madly in love with her.

Walter Moers sends us on a terrific journey through a mad world made up of nothing but adventure, excitement, chivalric romance, humourous dialogue and spun yarns of storytelling. In this breathtaking page-turner nothing is as it seems and never turns out the way you'd expect, the most adventurous ideas and images of our culture cross paths, from antique myths and knightly novellas to fantasy movies; from the Nibelungen and Greek mythology to Don Quijote and King Arthur's Round Table all the way to Monty Python."

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i also often think about the fancast/face claims that my friends and i have for hildecolossus. we've had them since around 2017, i think, and both of them were found completely accidentally by some now deeply forgotten means. Ashley Radford, the face claim for Hildecolossus, briefly used to be a model, i think; for the past several years he's been a traveling musician who eats 3 almonds a day, sleeps in a tent, and is severely allergic to wearing clothes. when i first found more pictures of him somewhere in the depths of pinterest, i was completely taken aback by his facial structure: his deep-set eyes, his low, dramatic eyebrows, the sharp line of his chin, the flat, widened bridge of his nose. he's so peculiarly shaped, like the human form of a voulge-themed Weapon in the Soul Eater universe. there's something very lionesque to his face, but also some quiet, some tragedy. how convenient!!!

Quincy Brown as the face claim for Hildegunst makes me feel uneasy sometimes because when we picked him he was basically a fancy baby with a couple of moderately popular TV projects and some endearingly amateur music videos under his belt. his face has always looked very draconic to me: the jawline, the eyebrows, the nose (the way he flares his nostrils!), but most importantly the eyes, dark and heavy-lidded, almost always half-open, making him look lazy, haughty, imposing. up until around this year we had no idea he had any connection to P D*ddy whatsoever, let alone that he was D*ddy's stepson 🥴

zamfandom, how do you feel about human!AUs? and AUs in general? do you have any?? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE ANY DETAILS AND/OR HEADCANONS??????

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PRECIOUS

Murkholmer takes his son fishing

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Stupid gay idiot Netherworld tyrants (feat. hatless Gornab and Friftar jumpscare)

Been thinking a lot about the fact that the book canonly mentions that they were childhood playmates (haha I bet there were happy memories that Friftar tries VERY hard not to cherish)

Also the fact that I imagine a lot of people in the Hellian court have been expecting for Gornab to marry a queen, so he can sire Gornab the 100th, the prince of the prophecy. Yet the book never states that he is married, so imma just assume he is too gay for his traitorous advisor and doesn't want anyone else. Meanwhile his ancestors in his head probably think otherwise teehee

IN FACTTTT thats a thing ive been meaning to write a fanfic about one of these days :''')

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OKAYYYY SO i had another set of Frifnab brainrot but like. Its a thing inspired by End of Evangelion, which is notoriously a Dark as Shit movie so imma put it under readmore just in case!

i had a brainworm where I imagined the final scene with Shinji and Asuka, but with Gornab and Friftar, after the canon events of the book when they both have died their extremely gruesome canon deaths and ended up in uhh...superhell from Supernatural?? Whatever afterlife there is for crooked hellings like them LMFAO

Anyway they both have lost everything. There is no more kingdom, no power, no crown to snatch, no theatre...nothing. Which means...Friftar has no need anymore to pretend. Also tbh the death to Tykhon Zyphos' monster disease probably made him lose some of his mind too. (Tl;dr an excuse for me to show a disheveled Friftar having entitely lost his composure and FINALLY show his true self to Gornab)

Feat. General Ticktock and Copper Killers T-posing to assert dominance

You can now play as Luigi

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Friftar truly is the top tier funniest Netherworld character to me, because you look at him next to Gaunab and Ticktack and might think "he's the least worst" but the moment you basically exclude the other two because they're so single-minded in their particular insanities, he's like. At least fifteen times worse than both of them combined, and then when he talks about himself, he's like "woe is me, I've suffered so much but I worked so hard to reach my goals, now everything's gonna be better, plus i'm the most competent and best person in Hel"

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PLEASE OH LORD PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUDE YOUR BRAIN IS SO HUGE I ADORE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! also goddamnit PLEASE SEND YOUR HEATWAVE MY WAY. IM FREEZING OUT HERE, I NEED MY +30C ASAP!!!!! 👹👹👹👹👹👹👹

Homuncolossus is a successful yet super eccentric and reclusive author who closed himself away in his mansion after getting fucked over by publishers (haha Phistomefel and Claudius out there committing gay crimes again)

reread this part 7632563275238 times. smiled blissfully. nodded so hard that the pond, located 5 minutes' walk from my house, acquired its own gravitational current. YES. OH YES. YESYESYEYSYEYSEUFIHJKOJIUHYWGYIUOIPJO

And then we got microbiology professor Kolibril who falls in love with shady ass casino worker Smeik

AND I NEED TO REREAD RUMO…. IT'S BEEN YEARS I REMEMBER NOTHING 🤲 but holy shit mukbang tiktoks got me DEAD 😭😭😭😭 does Rumo even get to eat stuff or is he like holding the phone since Urs's tripod is broken???????? 😭 tysm for sharing im so happy id love to hear MOREEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

zamfandom, how do you feel about human!AUs? and AUs in general? do you have any?? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE ANY DETAILS AND/OR HEADCANONS??????

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tootin' my own horn here (proudly), but AS I'VE SAID my friends and i have a ton of various human AUs for Zamonia (mostly for Hildecolossus, other Bookholm Trilogy characters, and some OCs created due to a serious lack of female characters in the series), and one of them is this sort of plain modern human AU in which Homuncolossus and Hildegunst are writing a book together. it's probably one of the most relaxed AUs because it can be anything we want: the setting could not have been easier, this universe functions the same way our own does so it's a perfect culture medium for the most basic ass headcanons and plot bunnies. want them to go to a movie theater? they will. want them to go to the gym? they will, but Hilde will probably suffer. want them to get married the same way regular couples from our world do (HAPPY PRIDE MONTH BTW)?? they can. and they will.

so, one of the (incredibly fluffy) thoughts that bring me joy in regard to this AU is the following: i think that, after some point in their relationship, when verbal love confessions are no longer a careful vulnerable bid for connection and just a common, comfortable, everyday thing, they both might feel the need to become unnecessarily smart and flaunty about it, just to have some fun. so instead of just using their native language they start looking up "how to say i love you" in other languages and keep surprising each other with what they find. sooner or later though, predictably, they sort of run out of all the "classical", common languages, and - since they're both very stubborn and, i imagine, quite competitive - have to go for the obscure and little-known ones, then for the forgotten and dead ones [digging up various pronunciation guides and other helpful trivia all the way. it's all very serious since they're both damn nerds], and then, finally for the fictional ones - all for the sake of surprising their partner with their boss ass knowledge and skill 🤪

zamfandom, how do you feel about human!AUs? and AUs in general? do you have any?? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE ANY DETAILS AND/OR HEADCANONS??????

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zamfandom, how do you feel about human!AUs? and AUs in general? do you have any?? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE ANY DETAILS AND/OR HEADCANONS??????

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HAHAHAHAHAUEHAHUAHE BACK AT YOU BACK AT YOU!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

ALSO SAME HERE!!! not sure if they'll ever be translated into Russian (the last one we got was 'Der Schrecksenmeister' in 2019 but that was before the war and i don't think Moers will want to have anything to do with us in the nearest future) (can't blame him though 🥴) but i would for sure hope to see them translated into English???? my main goal is to check the rest of his books and to collect every possible hildecolossus reference. i know for a fact that those are present in 'The Island…' (you've probably already seen the Quaquppa post here on tumblr????) and i suspect there's gotta be at least one little innuendo in each and every one of these books….. 👹

and god, that's one of my greatest fears too :< because how do you even counter that? he already has an angry mob chanting "HOMUNKOLOSS! HOMUNKOLOSS!" under every post on his facebook page… him having a writers' block would be horrible for everyone involved, and at the same time i can't really imagine what else could possibly make him postpone 'The Castle…' for so long… unless he's somehow found out that i stopped practicing my German back in 2021 and regressed back to the A2 grammar with A-50 vocabulary and he's just being merciful and giving me the time to lock the fuck in 😌🙏

@glowingtitle THE FEELING IS MUTUAL RAAAHHH I MISSED YOUR ENERGY AND QUALITY POSTS, im so happy I can be normal(TM) about these books with someone equally deranged (affectionate)

I haven't had the chance to read the new books yet sadly! They stopped translating them to Finnish and for some reason English too, and finding even German copies is hard where I live so my only alternative is to either get ebook versions of them and hone my German skills, or google translate the hell out of them LMAO

I'm curious for Princess Insomnia and the Island of Thousand Lighthouses (always good to see my boi Hilde cringefailing around) but?? Ive heard that the newer books are kinda mid and there's really nothing new or super important in them. I really hope Moers hasnt run into the GRRM Winds of Winter art block where he cant finish Castle anymore :( Or who knows maybe he has been polishing the book all these years

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JKSHGFDDAGSHKJHGAIUOIJAA THERE'S NO GREATER HONOR TO ME THAN TO STAND NEXT TO YOU AMIDST THE ZAMONIAN MADNESS 😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝

HAVE YOU READ ANY OF MOERS'S LATEST BOOKS????????

baby Rala and bear dad Talon having a good ol' forest running time! Oh boy I sure hope no hunter shows up :''') (Rala's backstory still makes me emotional to this day)

aka yes I recently reread Walter Moers' Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures, a book that's been my absolute favorite since I was 12 and which has pretty much been one of the things that shaped my personality SOOOO now I'm feeling super inspired to do Zamonia fanart once again, and I wanted to try illustrating some of my fave scenes

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THE NATURE IS HEALING. NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT INTO WORDS. FLOWERS BLOOM WHERE YOUR STYLUS GLIDES

diversity win!! the diabolical netherworld king and his also diabolical adviser who is scheming to kill him are gay (Walter Moers really went and wrote Megatron and Starscream in the form of helling monarchs huh)

of COURSE I was bound to doodle these two again now that the Zamonia phase has hit me like a truck. I'm (not) proud to admit that they were deadass one of my first gay ships ever as a teenager LMFAOOO

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TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE WE ARE SO BACK

Hildegunst and Kibitzer after their fallout

(sorry to the 10 people in the Zamonia fandom LMFAOOO i swear im done shitposting for today. audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_Z4vQBLs4)

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MOZANIA NAF????????? THE MOZANIA NAF??????????????????? I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!! HI AND HOPE YOU'RE DOING GOOD!!!!!!!!!! THE ARTWORK IS A MASTERPIECE AS USUAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

baby Rala and bear dad Talon having a good ol' forest running time! Oh boy I sure hope no hunter shows up :''') (Rala's backstory still makes me emotional to this day)

aka yes I recently reread Walter Moers' Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures, a book that's been my absolute favorite since I was 12 and which has pretty much been one of the things that shaped my personality SOOOO now I'm feeling super inspired to do Zamonia fanart once again, and I wanted to try illustrating some of my fave scenes

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also PLEASE im dying to discuss these books!!! have you read the Labyrinth?? or any of the other books that mention Hilde and his Bookholm shenanigans???? did you enjoy them???? 👀👀👀👀👀

i don’t think i’ve ever been more happy to see that there’s actually a fandom for something 😭😭🙏🏽🙏🏽 idk why i was randomly hit with the city of dreaming books brainrot, but MAN did it hit hard and fast 💀💀

also i learned that homuncolossus is depicted way different than i imagined him 😭😭