Belated Intro Post

Belated Intro Post

I'm Aperture-Hag on Tumblr or Hag-of-Ages on Ao3

Or you can call me Hugo

Pronouns: they/them

Interests: all things Portal / Half Life, especially things relating to Cave Johnson and Caroline

About: After being an on and off again lurker for the past few years, I'm on Tumblr again to Portal post. I don't know why but I got re-brainrotted so hard about this franchise earlier this February and it's been my new favorite thing all over again. Which means I'm happily still catching up on everything that's happened since 2017 (bless you Valve fandoms for never dying). Hopefully one day I will be known as the CEO of Platonic!Caveline.

I Will: Post mostly bad (but hopefully funny) visual art, enthuse about fanfics, reblog Portal & Half Life things, be meme-ing.

For your consideration: The world is frightening but you can do something about it even if it's small.

Research Update: Michigan’s mines were best known for copper (and some iron) so the fact that Aperture Science was built in a salt mine means it was literally built on lies and failure. God I swear Portal 2 is somehow a joke that keeps getting funnier.

Stupid Portal got me acting like a fool googling the history & location of mines in Upper Michigan Peninsula Got me taking notes like I’m back in history class

Prometheus

@gladosisstillalesbian O.O

It’s such a silly issue to have but I want to write a stand-alone fic in which Caroline has to deal with Cave Johnson’s wife and young children after his death, with the implication that Cave was a serially remarried playboy (which might align with some people’s headcanons). But it’s been a struggle to write because in my favorite headcanons Cave is 100% asexual/aromatic with no interest in any sort of relationship and is just living life for the science and the hijinks.

I don’t know what else to do with my need to write “Caroline as tired and aging woman visiting her boss/best friend’s widow who had confusing feelings (mostly anger) for now-dead Cave” vibes. But they are there.

Earth Defense Pal Ney-Kun

you're a tool, just as much as the crowbar you swing

this started as a study of mike mignola's artstyle and turned into an exercise in simplicity, reducing colors and elements until i was left with this, and i quite like how it turned out