I have posted this over to the Literal Ascension issue tracker as well. But LL is on the stack too so here I am

It seems either LL or Literal Ascension is causing a ForgeHooks circularity problem and causes a crash on startup when paired with other mods that need ForgeHooks

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCircularityError: net/minecraftforge/common/ForgeHooks at com.jamieswhiteshirt.literalascension.core.patcher.LiteralAscensionRuntimePatcher.onInit(LiteralAscensionRuntimePatcher.kt:13) ~[LiteralAscensionRuntimePatcher.class:?] at net.ilexiconn.llibrary.server.asm.RuntimePatcher.transform(RuntimePatcher.java:38) ~[RuntimePatcher.class:?] at net.minecraftforge.fml.common.asm.ASMTransformerWrapper$TransformerWrapper.transform(ASMTransformerWrapper.java:253) ~[forge-1.11.2-13.20.0.2228.jar:?] at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.LaunchClassLoader.runTransformers(LaunchClassLoader.java:279) ~[launchwrapper-1.12.jar:?] at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.LaunchClassLoader.findClass(LaunchClassLoader.java:176) ~[launchwrapper-1.12.jar:?] ... 6 more

This issue was resolved by using the right version of LLibrary with the right Minecraft version.