“I Thought You’d Like This”

jack the type of guy to listen to phonk just to seem edgy

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DUDE, YOU GUYS ARE GENUINELY AWESOME??? HERE'S SOME MORE JACK MERRIDEW ART I MADE BACK IN APRIL 🙏

WARNING: RAMBLING AHEAD!!!

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Just came back from band practice a while ago and notifications started pouring in. Seeing all my favorite LotF artists and enjoyers I've been looking up to for months interact with my posts is honestly heart warming.

Never thought I would finally have enough courage to post, getting such a positive outcome yesterday is SO motivating. I promise I'll post more!!!!!!!!

blorbo. qhatever

Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

Lord of the Flies Prompt List (Mild TW mentioned/implied topics)

-What if the island wasn’t tropical

-What if the boys (aged up) were actually in the military on their way to war when they crashed

-The beast was actually real

-When the boys are eventually rescued, they don’t return to England. Instead, they are sent to America as war continues

-(my friend gave me this one) When the officer lands, he does not speak English

-A natural disaster hits the island

-The boys, rather than pigs, turn to the water for food

-Simon isn’t the one that dies that night

-What if the boys got rescued before anyone (but poor mulberry boy) died?

-Disease strikes the boys

-Jack was always the chief

-It wasn’t Roger that killed Piggy

-Modern AU

-Simon isn’t the only one the Lord of the Flies ‘talks’ to

-Cannibalism.

-One of the boys, thanks to the impromptu landing, is left with an injury that will stick with them for years

-What if there were predators on the island?

-Simon can see the future (because he’s not beating the prophet allegations with this one boys)

-The plane doesn’t end up crashing into the water, it very much stays on the island (dead pilot time)

-British boys weren’t the only ones there

-Character(s) break the fourth wall but are really bad at doing it

-Ralph’s kind of experience on a farm helps to start a little garden

-all the boys were the same age

-The officer doesn’t believe Jack was trying to kill Ralph

-Explore Roger’s state of mind throughout the book

-This wasn’t Simon’s first seizure and it’s definitely not the last

-They find the body of Unnamed Mulberry Boy rest in peace(s)

-They get fallout from nuclear warfare

-An enemy captain finds the island first

-The parachuter was still alive when he landed

-Messages in bottles

-Phobias

-Surprising or not, Jack does NOT want to go home.

-Famine

-Debris from the war washes up

-The biguns contemplate what awaits them after their hypothetical rescue

-This happens during the first world war

-Ralph goes into foster care after being rescued

-A lot less boys survive the island. Explain.

-The Painted Faces Possess. There Is Much More To Fear Than The ‘Beast’.

-The boys never get fire

-Alternatively, the boys become much more civilized under Piggy’s ruling

-Ralph and Jack enter a partnership. Ralph is the level-headed and rational thinker, Jack has the voice and quick thinking. Jalph shippers go wild

-Describe the conversation between Jack and Simon’s guardian and Roger and Piggy’s Auntie.

-Ralph’s father does actually search for them.

-There are snakes

-What is the littluns point of view for through this?

-How do Sam and Eric feel during the rescue and/or hunt?

-Simon comes across the remains of the piglets (the lord of the flies babies)

-Disease does not affect the boys, but the island’s flora

-Disease does not affect the boys, but the island’s fauna

-Acid rain

-Prehistoric remains are found

-Ralph starts enforcing his rules with violence

-The island changes them in more ways than one

-It’s a different animal they are hunting

-Piggy has an asthma attack

-The biguns go through Uncomfortable Island Puberty TM

-Jack’s tribe leans more into cultic behavior. Now, they worship and sacrifice to the Beast

-Simon successfully tells them the truth of the ‘Beast’

-Out of every boy on the island, Jack feels the most guilt in the aftermath. Especially when Ralph is found drowned in a cow trough.

-The littluns start their own tribe

Added 4/22/25:

-Explore the fate of Piggy’s parents

-What was (any of) the boys life like before the island?

-In a dire attempt to keep the boys in order, Ralph turns to religion

-The boys aren’t going to wait for rescue to get off the island

-They weren’t the first humans to wash up on that island

-There are caves beneath the island, going down miles and centuries

-Jack never meant for things to go so far. But now, with the weight of his own deeds, he can’t stop.

-The littluns are the only mature ones

4/23/25: some fantasy prompts to explore more supernatural themes

-Mermaid AU

-Fantasy creatures inhabit the island

-Do something magical with the conch I guess

-The boys get animal mutations

-the war was a government cover up for an active alien invasion the boys experience first hand.

(sorry these seem really vague or bland I’ll fix and update more as I go)

If you do use any plz don’t credit I don’t own ideas but plz plz PLEASE tell me if you do end up posting anywhere so I can read it

i hope my writing is legible 💔💔💔 anyways roger is peak idk



you know how I said Simon loves bugs? he also eats them sometimes. it’s an impulse thing. he can’t help it

Lotf headcanon!:)

(Okay I relate to this, I hate bugs but when I was 6-8 I'd eat them. Like really small bugs, and I one time accidentally ate a butterfly)

roger is basically young gru from despicable me

i can 100% see roger saying “i vont to steel ze moon”

I found a drawing I made back in January abt ch.8 and i never finished it cause I was scared of coloring it 😔

I’ll may color it ,digitally, someday :3 (most probably not)

also this is probably how the whole plot looked like in jack's pov