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Thank you for your answer and the tip about using thumblr. I ams noob still, lol 😂

Yes indeed you made me cave and finally make an account here. *ohhh shiny* ❤

I used to give myself tendinitis from typing until I found mechanical keyboards. Depending on how heavy or light the switches are, of course! My partner enjoys the very heavy variety, while I'm a little more vanilla in the 'tactile actuation force'-department. Also clicky-clacky is my JAM.

I can recomend Lenovo branded Laptops for their ease of use and batterylife for similar reasons. I currently own a Lenovo Legion and the screenquality alone makes me VERY happy.

Traveling situations can be annoying to lug extra stuff around, I know. The new-fangled mechanical hot-swappeable keyboards lend themselves well to that, actually! The ones I fell in love with are 75% wireless bluetooth/2.4/5GHz ones.... I own 4 of them now plus a daily driver 100% that is wired to my main computer permanently.

Once you taste the forbidden fruit of knowledge that is the wireless keyboards with 36 hours of batterylife where you can sit back and lounge to write you may find yourself falling into a fiery pit and....wait, what was I talking about? 😂

Err anyways... thank you!

Haven't done this before.... is this thing on? helooo... So I wanted to ask, since you are writing a lot, do you have a mechanical keyboard? As someone who fell into the absolute rabbithole that is mechanical keyboards a few years ago, I am always interested in other peoples experiences. So, if not, ignore my following completely nerdy ramblings: I personally like the clicky and tactile types. My favourites are Kaihl Box White, Jade and Midnight Purples. Thanks!

Hello! Welcome to my inbox and possibly Tumblr, haha—I love seeing familiar usernames from AO3!

So the perils of being a student who frequently has to change locations and have a computer at work means that I've been using exclusively laptops since graduating high school in 2014! I currently use a ROG Zephyrus G14 (though I don't remember the year as I bought it used-like-new off a friend), which, by the by, I would highly recommend to anyone who wants a lightweight but powerful gaming laptop that has a pretty, work-appropriate aesthetic and travels very well because it has a separate, integrated graphics card that allows it a 10 hour battery life.

HOWEVER. I know a bunch of people that are into keyboards and I gleefully anticipate the day (probably in another three years, once I finish residency and move again) when I can get an actual desktop and finally find out what the heck all of y'all are on about, hahaha. My dad does have a nice clacky one with low-set buttons that I find really satisfying, though. A childhood of him playing Doom 3, Far Cry 2, and Battlefield 2 in the living room while I read on the couch makes it a very comforting background noise to me. At least until I started stealing his desktop to play WoW and Overwatch, hahaha.

This fic is fantastic. The analysis is super on point here.

Dealbreaker

I found a fic "The Last Bus Stop in Hell, Now Boarding" by @prince-liest and… well, some scenes just stuck around in my head (read: tormented my artistic brain) long enough to get me down to sketching them out. Then a few hours, a few brushes and a few different colouring experiments later, it was no longer barely a sketch, at the expense of actual lunch... Oh well.

For those who haven’t read it (spoiler free), Angel and Alastor got their bodies swapped involuntarily, and the horrendous expression on Angel’s face belongs respectfully to Alastor.

Now, bear with me, because I’ve been overthinking this scene the whole time I was drawing it – Angel made a promise to Alastor, but one that is much more of a gesture of reassurance and what-happened-will-always-remain-in-this-room kind than anything resembling actual deal. And then, mere moments later, Angel realises that helping Al AND keeping the promise is impossible, so he dismisses the fact that he even said anything, and just jumps right onto the helping part, because he knows that that’s best thing to do for a friend. But Alastor doesn’t share that view – maybe it’s a mix of trauma, shame and the loss of control over almost anything, but he doesn’t think clearly at this point – normally, he’d sooner or later agree with Angel. But not there, not then – he’d rather expect the impossible to happen, and rage when it doesn’t.

And there’s the interesting choice of words – he could’ve called Angel anything at this point, we know how rich Alastor’s vocabulary is – but the word he chose was dealbreaker. Maybe, just maybe, from a perspective of hellish overlord, a sinner that twists and turns in an attempt to get rid of their contract is nothing less than pathetic, but what if the deal was only verbal, no signing, no contract, just "trust"… There are probably no other beings in Hell that, ironically, have less trust in somebody’s WORDS than the overlords, knowing what extremes the sinners are willing to go to just to squeeze their way out of a sticky situation. Also, one can only become a dealbreaker exactly in that scenario, when nothing was set in stone.

For Alastor, dealbreaker is a knife in the back. The worst kind of liar. The very being that reminds him so painfully that trust doesn’t exist without force applied to it by a binding contract, which, if you think about it, is a paradox. Dealbreakers are the reason he distances himself from everyone.

And here’s the sugar on the cream (pun intended): Angel is only trying to HELP. What a beautiful tragedy.

To end this little overthinking session: it’s been a long while since I’ve read anything that would make me genuinely terrified, and it’s even more amazing that it began as something quite hilarious. Do mind though that the topic is HEAVY, to say the least.

I can’t say I’ve read a lot of Hazbin fics, but so far Princeliest writes Alastor probably the closest to his original character, which I love. Please, keep up the good work!

Go read that. It's great!

I had a deeply unhinged idea and I NEED to inflict it on everyone else. Huzzah!

Final installment is really great! Gonna chew on that one for a while and I think I'm due for a re-read of the series, too!

The final installment of 666: Live On Air isssss.... live! :D

So, uh.. I‘m deranged and just had some shower thoughts on that.

It would be something like this, I think:

Land Rover Discovery

Ford Crown Victoria

I have a few suggestions, if I may be so bold. It is based on a few assumptions, so bare with me (or ignore if it doesn't vibe with what you're trying to do)

-Alastor having a 'fancy city home' and a 'hunting lodge in the bayou'

-Being not nessecarily against new technology but very much against planned obsolescence that became very prevalent in the 2010s and onwards (leading to the right to repair movement, but that is very recent)

So assuming he was very successful at hiding in plain sight, he was never officially 'caught' with his murdery dealings. Hiding bodies requires to have at least a decently sized car and trunk space, as well as tools. That leads me to think that he may have been driving an offroad vehicle just so he can mime the woodsy outdoorsman hunter type. Complete with camping gear, shovel and axe(which he did occasionally use to chop actual wood). Having trunk space available is important for transporting all your….trophies…after all. Maybe also accompanied by bumper stickers that identify him as a hunter.

Otherwise I would assume he drove something like a Ford Crown Victoria. Why? Because it‘s the ‚everyman‘s car‘ - common as dirt, excellent parts availability, inconspicuous in urban environments. Maybe he also failed the ‚Family Guy color swatch test‘ one too many times for his liking, so driving one of these sometimes nets him brownie points with the older police officers who had good memories with this car. Social engineering cops to get off his ass by playing to their sensibilities - „Yes this car is so great, you know, my great uncle used to drive one of these…-„ (while simultaneously cursing about how the clutch keeps catching and how abused the first gear is because the previous owner was a slob….he should have gotten a Toyota 4x4 but that‘s the „terrorist truck“ and that would be telling)

Sry I‘m having way too much fun with this…Just ignore me, it‘s mostly shower thoughts

Sooooo what car do we think Once Bitten Alastor drove ?

I wish I knew more about cars and could give this a thoughtful answer, but I didn't get my license until I was 25 (grew up somewhere you didn't need a car) and so I really am new to the world of having to care about vehicles, hahaha.

I feel like he would have an appreciation for something classic and nice-looking but still functional and not overly expensive. Definitely not the kind of guy to pay dozens-to-hundreds of thousands on a classic car (frankly not sure if he could afford that in the first place) but also giving him a '97 Corolla like I currently drive (extremely widely-produced and thus easy to source parts for, demonstrably keeps rolling 27+ years later, very "if it ain't broke, don't fix it") seems like it's not classy enough. Maybe it was originally his mom's and he inherited it!

He definitely has exactly one (1) carefully-positioned bumper sticker, and it's a tasteful logo advertising his podcast.

Chapter four update for Once Bitten, Back For More! <3

This chapter .... *crab hands* *clack clack*

Chapter five of Once Bitten, Back For More is here! :) Patience? Never met her!

First kiss! Super cute!

I applaude this take because I also crave more equilibrium between all the people!

Evil yet loveable found family will never not be a mood and staticmoth can always coexist peacefully next to other pairings.

(It also makes the crafted worlds a richer place because it hints at a greater "world" beyond just the scenes we get to read about)

Fun Fact: 50% of the reason that Valentino and Velvette both get to live in Once Bitten, Back For More is that I want more radiostatic fics out in the world that aren't "Valentino is the bad guy and Alastor is the good guy"-flavored and thus refuse to break up staticmoth in any of my radiostatic stuff. The other 50% is because I love them and it would have made me sad. unu

(Disclaimer: Have totally read "Valentino is the bad guy and Alastor is the good guy" style fics, no shade to them, I just love both radiostatic and staticmoth.)

😍 Thank you so much for your answer!

This story is really great! It captures so many themes and hits so many character points. It's really thought-provoking and I love that.

With stories like this, my brain just literally grabs them and runs away with them before I can even complain about it! Really wonderful and exciting to read.

Dr Prince! You have very effectively infected my brainslug with ‘Lady’s First’ (fire name, btw. the meaning hit me in the face when typing this and you would only know when checking the spelling) I can’t stop thinking about it.

Sorry beforehand, this may bully your inbox with a wall of text.

There are so many things I want to write and analyse about this, but right now I’d like to focus on Vox:

(also: feel free to ignore this if my insane ramblings go off the rails, lol, they tend to do that)

So I find it fascinating how both of them interact in this. Clearly they were talking about emotional and personal things way more than male Alastor. It’s very hard for me to put into words, not gonna lie. Vox, I feel like, has experienced a very different kind of ‘hell-socialisation’ in this version. Since it’s not ‘my gender is eldritch monster’ Alastor he’s looked up to but Alastor the woman who also happens to be the mighty Radio Demon, things turned out very different. 

We can all agree that friendships between men and friendships between men and women are different. We can’t forget that Vox is also playing a role here. His presentation is carefully crafted to be the ‘man’s man’. He is all ‘I’m going to present as toxic masculine as I have learned men to be during my lifetime’ -> probably very much imitating the way that his boss used to present. Because that’s what a man does, of course(lol)! The competitive edge, so to say, is missing that would be present between ‘old-boy’ male friends. This is laced with the fact that Vox is also queer as Hell and not immune to his own upbringing. So he was able to clock Alastor’s insecurity IMMEDIATELY and tried his best to dispel them (even though it was for different reasons than one might think initially). Because he’s probably been subject to the same thing when he was alive. (Again, ignore if I’m being stupid about this, it’s just my own interpretation and I’m INSANE)

Also it kinda feels like talking about feelings is something that comes more naturally to Vox and thus, things like him being transgender and them having talked about his vast collection of dildos beforehand is interesting but I also can’t quite put my finger on WHY, exactly. Is it because a male Alastor would have absolutely snooped around Vox’s room as well, taken note of the dildos and just not given a shit? I don’t know! And Vox being so soft and considerate throughout the whole thing hit me in the face out of left field, not gonna lie.

Now, coming over to Alastor for a moment. You can almost see the gears turning in her head that led to this decision. All the little hints beforehand and the interactions throughout. As you said: socialisation as a woman dictated to her that if she wants to have a meaningful friendship with a man, it is expected of her to give herself over. She clearly likes Vox enough but I think there are also other layers to this. There is also that “choosing a partner” vibe. She is just as curious and wanting to try things as her male counterpart. She also already knew she probably wouldn’t enjoy sex but she’s not above trying it out nevertheless -> combining all the things: Vox being a friend that is near and dear to her heart that she also doesn't feel ‘weaker’ to, if that makes sense. Vox can’t ‘take’ her power or perceived status away the same way a non-Overlord would in this scenario. I interpret/project a lot of “men sleeping around are heroes, women sleeping around are sluts” into this. Then there is Vox being trans and having had very similar socialisations during his lifetime. It almost created a safe space for Alastor. If it was going to be ANY man she was ever going to try this with, it would be Vox. (Of course that notion of ‘safety’ is a very flimsy and badly worded descriptor that goes out the window the second we bring hypnosis and the fact that they are DEMONS in HELL into the mix but I’m very bad at describing my thoughts in this otherwise) 

Phew. ok, so that was so many words to say: I love this stuff! 

Now I wish that it was a series but my brain already can’t comprehend how this masterpiece even saw the light of day so….

Thank you so much for this!

HENCHY THIS ASK WAS SO LOVELY <3 No apologies, I love long comments (though for continuous conversations I tend to start putting things under a cut, haha).

I think you're very on-point with a lot of this, especially with Vox feeling like a safe enough option that Alastor was able to get far enough as to try this in the first place. And it's not just because she thinks Vox understands where she's coming from, having experienced life "as a woman" (in Alastor's eyes, though that's not precisely actually true to the trans experience), but also because they're from similar enough time periods that she thinks Vox has a proper understanding of how things should be. Vox in this fic has been historically actively more respectful to Alastor in a very gendered way because he's socially canny enough to pick up on the fact that Alastor expects him to be, and he cares enough about what she thinks of him to continue behaving that way even decades after they met when it's not actually the 1950s anymore.

Chivalry is dead, but they're both in hell with it!

And talking about his feelings comes more naturally to Vox in this fic because he's talking about them to a woman rather than another man, so a lot of society's "men shouldn't have soft squishy feelings (unless it's to their mother or female significant other)" bullshit doesn't register, especially to a guy who, y'know, has a vested interest in performing masculinity "correctly." If that makes sense! >:D

Anyway, thank you so much! I didn't expect the sheer amount of interest and positive response that this fic would garner and it has brought me a lot of joy. I'm really happy that you enjoyed it!

I technically wrote this about a month ago, but please enjoy the extremely silly name I gave my Day 2 submission for @hellaversekinkweek! The prompts were Cannibalism and Body Worship, so, y'know. ;)

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