#Nemo Replies

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

*boops your nose* send this to ten blogs you think are lovely and deserve a boop on the nose😊🫵💚

THANK YOU DEAREST GIULIETTA <3 <3

CONSIDER YOURSELF REBOOPED.

but because I am a bit too tired to go into each of these people's ask boxes, allow me to tag them here and spread THE BOOP:

@savage-rhi @margridarnauds @thatcrazycrowgirl @susann-noir @tkwritesdumbassassins @abowlofcurry @gravecleric0900 @straight-into-the-animus @acdoesart @aiza-luna @nyanykamito (and I am sorry if I forgot anyone, I am still drinking my coffee, and I have something like 4 hours sleep on my back lol)

(also, retagged people becasue tumblr was not giving them as tagged)

[nemophilistcreature]

strictly fictionkin blog: @nemo-fiction primary blog: @springmuse

Awakened since mid-2016

[nemossubmarine]

🤔 🦖🥳🪩🎉?

🤔 Are there any new characters you want to write about? I'm currently writing a Big Bang for a completely new fandom fic-wise (Warhammer), so that's something new. After that I need to jump into writing a short story for a competition (also Warhammer). Whatever I'll do after that, something different might do me good. Maybe when Hades II comes out to Alpha I'll get into that game (no promises tho).

🦖 Are there any fandoms you wrote for in the past that you'd like to return to? Haha I have like a two dozen half-finished fics I look at regularly and sigh wistfully, including a couple of long fics (Yugioh, Hobbit and Ace Attorney at least) I'd love to finish some day. Some of them have even been plotted to the end! If I only had the time. :P

🥳 How are you going to celebrate when you achieve one of your writing goals? I really have not thought about it, but I definitely need to do something nice for myself when the Big Bang is done (it has ballooned from 10k to 40k, woops). Maybe I'll get myself a piece of cheesecake.

🪩 Do you have any "good" writing habits you want to cultivate? I would like to get more thoughtful in using my allotted 2 x 15 minutes coffee breaks at work for writing. Maybe start having them always at the same time, get that cup of tea, get a few hundred words in. Get a little break from having to think about work and not feel bad if I don't have the energy to write after work.

🎉 How are you going to be kind to yourself if you don't meet your goals? I mean, getting something as big as a Big Bang done at the start of the year does help with being kind to oneself ("Look I already did this!"). Every year it does get easier to be understanding of oneself, I don't write as much as when I was studying, but I'm not studying anymore, and tho there's a lot of actual free time and I dont have to do homework, there's still lot to do work-wise and taking care of my home-wise. Best not to compare yourself too much to past years and be happy with things you do at the point you do them.

[nemo-in-wonderland]

this is random but do you know about the song Call Me Little Sunshine by Ghost? That's basically Mephisto warlock anthem

NONNIE.

👀👀👀👀

NONNIE.

NO, I DIDN'T KNOW THE SONG, BUT FML, I LISTENED TO IT AND

IT.

IS.

PERFECT.

P-E-R-F-E-C-T.

You will happy to know that I have added to my Mephisto/Aranea playlist because FML, IT'S PERFECT FOR THEM.

ADORE.

THANK YOU FOR SENDING THIS TO ME.

[ryllen]

Nemo & Me

[savage-rhi]

@nemo-of-house-hamartia Hope this answers your questions 😂

[fulcrvm]

I know I just reread 20'000 Leagues Under the Sea but your posting about it is making me want to turn around and reread it again!!

AAAA YES!! I'm reading it for the first time in preparation for a VisDev class project (there's no guarantee I'll be using it for the project at all but I would really love to), and it's amazing?! It's my first Jules Verne as well, I'm already a massive fan of his writing style already! I've been in a very nautical mood recently since getting into Dishonored and being gifted a copy of The Worst Journey in the World (the graphic novel), so it only made sense to try my hand at reading THE nautical novel of all time lol :)

[izutsoupmi]

that panel of matama's mom is from before she joined enormita and went on the hunts right? maybe she ran away from home cause her mom didnt support her singing lol

That's true, that's true. Hopefully we'll get to see more of their daily life and the consequences of the MGH

[bluebellhairpin]

My jaw is on the floor rn bc 1. I cannot believe u remembered half of these (TENSEI AND PYRAMID HEAD?? OMG??). 2. You think I'm like Annabeth (Queen). And 3. I have no idea who the blond eye-patch guy from game of Thrones is, however I feel like you have two character smoshed together (Aemond (eyepatch) and Daemon (11th doctor), honestly fair enough nc they do look very similar).

[yukipri]

Just wanted to show you the cute Jango I crocheted. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ω•⁠⁠◍⁠)

Have a wonderful day!!!

Gosh how cute! Your crochet skills are amazing. Thanks for sharing!

❀ ❀ Send YukiPri an Ask! ❀ ❀

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

I DID IT! I managed to finish it and tumblr didn’t eat the post this time!

WOOOOHOOOOOOOO FAYE!!! I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!! <3

LET'S CELEBRATE!!!

[nemophilistcreature]

Hi hi it's me it's accepting man

Mhm mhm!! Hiiiiiii :D

[nemossubmarine]

Bookish asks: 📕, 📗, 📙, 📖, 📕, 📘, 🔖?

📕What book has had the biggest impact on your life, and why? Hmm, that is a difficult question. I might have to go with R. A. Salvatore's Sojourn. I haven't read it in like 15 years, but it was the first book I remember absolutely adoring. I read it like... six times before I went to high school, and it definitely was the one that inspired me to start writing. (I should re-read it, though I can't imagine it holding up)

📗Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you read multiple books simultaneously?  I usually read between 2 and 4 books. I usually have one book I read at work during lunch that may or may not be the same book I read at home (for example if my home book is a physical book, I read ebooks at work), and usually another book that is more denser non-fiction that I read every now and then. And sometimes just another book that I have picked up for some reason.

📙What’s your favorite genre to read, and do you have any recommendations within that genre?  Already answered!

📖What is your favorite book-to-movie adaptation, and why?  I love love love Who Framed Roger Rabbit? It was one of my favorite movies as a child. The book was very different, and of course there's the nostalgia factor.

📕Who is your all-time favorite author, and what makes their writing so special to you?  Terry Pratchett. I think growing up with his books has definitely had a huge impact on my sense of humor, my curiosity about the world and my morality. His books have been a constant companion and comfort through my life.

📘Are there any book series that you’ve been meaning to start but haven’t gotten around to yet? Which ones are they?  There's this podcast I listen to at work "What Should I Read Next?" where the host recommends books to guests based on what they like. There has been couple of sci-fi series that sound interesting, but I haven't gotten around to checking how easy they would be to get here, like, I would like to get them through the library and in English (if original language). Also I can't remember all of them, cos I am very bad at writing them down. :D One of them was Martha Wells' Murderbot diaries.

🔖Which classic book or author do you think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime, and why? Famously (among my friends at least) my favorite classic author is Dostoyevsky. I adore the Brothers Karamazov, but I'm not sure I want to force anyone to read all 1k pages of it. But I definitely recommend everyone should pick something from the 19th century Russian literature.

[nemo-in-wonderland]

So we know that the terms of Aranea’s contract say that if anyone thaws her heart, boom, contract done, which begs the question of what happens if *Mephistopheles* is the one to do it?

MARGRID.

SUCH JOY TO SEE YOU HERE <3

lemme just give you the biggest batch of cookies and coffee that I can find. LEMME JUST FIND THEM.

SO.

ONTO YOUR ASK.

It is indeed true: if Aranea's heart were to thaw because she fell in love - deeply, utterly, completely- with anyone, her contract with Mephisto would be considered done, she would lose all her powers and her soul would belong to Mephisto to do with it as it pleases him.

BUT.

What needs to be kept in mind is that Mephisto created this contract BEFORE he started to harbour any kind of romantic feelings for her, and verily, when he initiated his plan of charming and corrupting Aranea, he was partially motivated by that particular claus. Also, being the creator of the contract, he knew about every single possible loophole and whatnot present in it.

Now, with this in mind, we also need to remember that Aranea's heart was frozen and taken outside of her body of her own volition with the specific intent to mute every single emotion connected to love (think of it like Aranea having a thick transparent wall that cannot be penetrated in any way), so for Mephisto this rendered the whole challenge even more intriguing.

However, what Mephisto didn't take into account, when he started to pursue Aranea, was how deeply he would actually fall for her, how this whole challenge ended up becoming his most profound obsession: how immensely frustrated he was when he saw that nothing he did moved Aranea closer to him, how much he missed her whenever she went on her journeys to reap souls for him, how much he actually yearned for her; not just her body and their physical encounters: he missed her company, her mind, so similar to his own, her thoughts and her counsel and her sense of loyalty that he never experienced before.

One night, while she was asleep, Mephisto actually found himself pondering about her lack of response to his attempts to woo her, trying to find the actual source of the problem. And it was then that his attention found its way again to her whole heart situation.

Keeping her in his arms, close to him as he did each night where they joined as one, he realized that he couldn't feel her heart beating against his chest.

Nothingness dwelled there. And so long her frozen heart was outside her body, she could never feel anything again, and as his mind run through each section of his contract, he remembered that if she were to fall for him in the same way he had fallen for her, her heart would thaw and she would be lost to him.

And it was in that moment that he realized he could never be parted from her, ever, that she was his and that she had invaded his thoughts in a way so deep, he couldn't even wrap his head around it without getting an headache to be honest (it's a first for him, so he needed a few moments to process the realization).

And then, he had an epiphany and found a loophole inside his own contract.

If she fell in love, if she felt love again in her heart, her heart would thaw, and it would be lost forever.

But what if she were to feel all that love through another's heart?

What if she were to feel all that love through...his own heart?

So, by sharing with her half of his heart, Mephisto managed to have Aranea feel love once more, without running the risk of HER heart thawing and rendering the contract done.

So yeah.

Aranea carries half of Mephisto's heart in her chest (which created all sort of things afterwards, as it was expected lolol), while Mephistopheles keeps Aranea's frozen heart in his religuary, far away from indiscreet eyes, because if anyone were to get their hands on it...well, let's say it's a liability. For both of them!

SO.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ASK.

I was truly *dying* to share this particular detail, but never had the proper occasion! and your ask brought it to me!!

THANK YOU! <3

[lottieurl]

pinky promise i know things like schedule conflicts exist

[murdcck]

Why do I keep getting activity notifications of replies from MONTHS ago?!