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Hello and welcome everyone to my newest project called Pluto reviews where I gush about the amazing fanfics my dear friends wrote <3

I've always (kind of?) wanted to do this for a pretty long time, but was too shy to actually write and post something, so I wanted to thank my very cool friend Nova (aka @min1nova) for asking me to review their fic called To the bone.

Without further ado, let's get to it :3c

Contents:

Introduction ✦ Story summary ✦ My thoughts ✦ Excerpts ✦

‧₊˚✩彡 Introduction

⤷ To the bone is a dark industrial fantasy fanfic based on the Hades video game from 2018. What is dark industrial fantasy, you ask? Imagine Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher without the high fantasy elements-- heavily inspired by industrial towns in eastern Europe. The main pairing is Thanaots/Zagreus, but there's a smidge of Charon/Hermes in the background, if you're into that too. It is rated as mature, mostly because of its serious and grim nature. It currently has over 4k words, but I'm sure that's gonna change soon, since Nova has a few more chapters planned.

⤷ TW for the first chapter (as described by Nova): blood, mediocre surgery description, Thanatos with the usual amount of stick up his ass(!)

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‧₊˚✩彡 Story summary

⤷ Author's summary:

A small town enshrouded in the march of industrial abuse of the land is the home of many curious figures. Darkness is afoot, sons harbour secret enterprises and death is only a comforting constant here. The gloomy barista of a quiet cafeteria begins to unravel a mystery as an uneventful night turns into a rather harried operation.

⤷ My summary:

The story focuses on a young man named Thanatos, who is trying to make a living as a coffee shop owner in a small mining town called Grobniki. One evening, a heavily wounded man passes out on the doorstep of his establishment and Thanatos decides to take him in and patch him up.

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‧₊˚✩彡 My thoughts

⤷ I might be slightly biased since I got this was a very, very cool story gifted to me by Nova, however! Nova's writing style is so fucking good I simply must promote it whenever I can :3c

⤷ I absolutely love how Nova manages to nail the characterisation no matter the tone she sets for her story. Not only that, the characterisation makes sense within her story. Take Thanatos, for example. He's deadly serious (pun intended) and takes his job very seriously in the game, so it makes sense he would be the same in To the bone. Nova, however takes it to a next level-- we get Thanatos who's kinda scary and is absolutely terrible at social interactions, despite a coffee shop owner. Never would I have thought that Than would choose to talk to people as a job, but holy shit Nova pulls it off so well. And Zagreus-- my god Zagreus!! He's still the talkative, flighty himbo we see in the game, but you can feel he's hiding something behind that smug smile of his. Not gonna lie, when I first read his lines, I could hear his voice saying them.

⤷ Also the general vibe of the story is?? so good?? Nova's fics tend to gravitate towards grittier, more serious aesthetics and I'm all here for it.

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‧₊˚✩彡 Excerpts

And lastly, here are my favourite parts from the first chapter, It begins in the darkness:

The doctor’s son had indeed ventured to open a business of his own. His greyish, darker skin would gleam in the lamplight and contrasted sharply with his ashy platinum hair, hands working deftly and his stride quick as he prepared the orders. Amongst those could be a strange liquid, dark as the night, imported from the imposing, large city so far beyond their reach. The bitter end, a name that caused many a chuckle, was not well visited in the evening, but more and more of the workforce would make their way to the shop in the morning, nursing a cup of the death that served them, even if the only deadly thing about it was the amounts of precious sugar deposited in each and every cup quickly drained before a long day of hard labour and shallow breaths.

⤷ hrrghrgrgh you have. no idea. how much I love Nova's worldbuilding and scene descriptions i mean are you seeing this??? I swear to god they're hogging all that talent it's not fair

“Dear bartender, I would like a small cup of your darkest, with two spoons of sugar please!” The postman all but draped himself over the counter every morning, quite dramatically so. It would be the same every morning, before he ran all the way to the larger town down the river to pick up the post, and in the afternoon he would distribute it among the townsfolk, in their little letterboxes. 

⤷ HERMES IS MY FAVOURITE LITTLE FELLA AND NOVA WRITES HIM SO WELL

“–and then I nearly fell down the bridge, and I saw them all! The fish you were speaking of, I knew it was bad, but not nearly as I saw it, oh the stench!” The postman had seated himself across the fisherman–if one could call the draping that he always tended to do just that–and spoke animatedly. A strange companionship the two nursed over drinks, but Thanatos found himself just a tiny bit envious between the laughter that bounced off the floorboards and the easy way in which they seemed to understand each other, even if they didn’t quite speak each other’s language.

⤷ woe! background charon/hermes be upon ye! (foaming at the mouth they make me so ill in the best way possible)

Thanatos would like to claim that he was not so different from these townsfolk, but that was not entirely true. It took him some time, when he’d been younger, to learn to discern. The vacant eyes were not so different from the vacancy that could dwell in the mind sometimes, after all. Pale skin could glitter so sickly, when one happened to be a patient of his loving mother. 

⤷ i need to print this out and shove it in my mouth this is so fucking good oh my god

After thorough inspection, Thanatos did not find any more grave injuries that needed immediate attention, other than a clean rag over the numerous scrapes that mapped a concerning picture for the observer. The bruises that would certainly grow darker soon, the pale, sweaty skin stretched over a body that would fail the host soon if the wound wasn’t closed soon. When he checked for a pulse, despite the assurance that the body was still breathing, rapidly, there seemed to be next to none. He frowned. 

⤷ another banger paragraph that makes me want to jump up and down while screaming like an ape because i can't handle how beautiful Nova's writing style is

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Anyways, that's all I have for today!

What did you think? Would you like me to continue doing reviews like this? Or better, would you like me to read YOUR fic and do a review of it?

(youtuber voice) let me know what you think in the comments! Until next time!

Yours truly,

Pluto aka midnightfangz <3

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It's hyperfixation o'clock, guess who's getting salty again that there aren't any worldbuilding fics about the Dark Brotherhood

#like oh my god theres like 200 years between the murder of lachance and destruction of the cheydinhal sanctuary wheres all the drama #bethesda is so shit at properly fleshing out their world what the hell do u mean i have to make all of this up by myself #hnng i really wanted to make my skyrim blorbos look cool and join the DB at its peak (3E 430 something before the betrayal) as well as #re-join the DB after the destruction of cheyd. sanc. and the DB quest in elder scrolls but its not possible #like. timeline wise. they r elves but 250 something years is a bit more than they would realistically live. and it doesn't fit the Vibe #midnightfangz.txt #skyrim #the elder scrolls

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Cooking something 😈

#Ignore the weird censoring I'm writing this for a friend. So the names would immediately give it away lol #Also buckle up this one is gonna be over 10k words 💀 #midnightfangz.txt

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Brooooo i want to write and draw so bad but i literally have zero energy to do anything rn. Pain agony suffering torture

#midnightfangz.txt #Grhrhrgrhrh i need to finish at least three drawings #EveningGales if you're reading this please know that i love your fic so much and i see you're updating super duper often #Im still stuck on chapter eight but im working on that drawing i prommy

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Fun skyrim au idea:

Modern version of the dark brotherhood but they all work in a place where killing is heavily discouraged, like retail or a restaurant. Their personalities are more or less the same

Not sure how well the whole "chosen by a god/spiritual leader" (aka being a listener) thing is gonna translate into this but whatever

#but pluutooo this is just normal retail experience. yeah. thats why its so funny to me #bitchy customer vs absolutely unhinged cicero FIGHT #fanfic idea #midnightfangz.txt #skyrim #the dark brotherhood

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YOOOO YOU CAN FINALLY ADD A CUT/READ MORE ON MOBILE. PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH

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i should stop drinking coffee because man. today i totally blacked out and went into a writing frenzy so now i have like a 2k word long ramble about my skyrim listener sitting in my drafts and i have no idea what to do with it

i could post it, sure. but i literally dont remember writing most of it. i just sat behind the keyboard and started writing

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Favourite character trope (of sorts?): strong guy in big, bulky armour who's INSANELY GOOD at stealth

#Looking at you mando #writing #character tropes #midnightfangz.txt

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Did i fukin. Delete my commission form on accident

#pain dot jpg #what the fuck how #I DONT WANNA DO ALL OF IT AGAIN FROM SCRATCH #midnightfangz.txt

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What if you: wanted to write

But your brain said: cringe fail loser at it again. You shall perish within three days for thy manuscripts are flaming garbage

#aheem heem whimper #this fic is kicking my ass so hard :((( #midnightfangz.txt #fanfiction #writing #writeblr

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from the bottom of my heart fuck you google literally all of my work in on fucking google docs :///

#ppl are saying that google doesnt really use your data unless you allow them to so leaving your stuff on there is a matter of trust and well #im not that dumb to trust a big ass company who only cares about profit #fuck you fuck you fuck you i have to learn new shit now #pain suffering and agony #midnightfangz.txt

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What da actual fuck how did that happen

#copying all my stuff to obsidian bc fuck you google and man. i have never written more than 5k words for one wip how the hell did i get 40k #writing #fanfiction #midnightfangz.txt

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The feeling when you start doodling as a way to take a break from writing a fic all day which then turns into a fully finished painting six hours later

#the coffee induced mania is a Thing #and its kinda scaring me lol #midnightfangz.txt

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Biiiig question. Should i add the new characters from across the spiderverse (hobie, pavitr, jess etc) into my coffee shop au fic that im currently marinating in my brain.

Because on one hand. They are all so fucking cool and i think it could be fun

On the other hand. I haven't seen the movie (yet). And realistically, i won't be able to handle that many characters

But then again,,,,,,i wanna write hobie and noir interacting SO MUCH bc they would absolutely vibe together. I could probably make hobie appear just for one or two scenes but,, i cant do that to him he deserves much better

Arghhh decisions, decisions,,,,,

#writing #fanfiction #writeblr #midnightfangz.txt #just rambling so feel free to ignore me #spiderverse coffee shop au #<- for all my ramblings and ideas

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Thinking about the spiderverse coffee shop AU again. I NEED to start writing as soon as i get home (delusional)

#At work rn :( not great #(its a part time job) #hrgggh these fictional characters i swear #fanfiction #writing #writeblr #midnightfangz.txt

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trying to write but i cant stop watching the official video of otonablue by atarashii gakko. its so fun and the song is such a banger someone please help me

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