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21 for the list thingy?

Take your time, let the rivers guide you in You know where you can find me again I'll be waiting here till the stars fall out Of the sky

CONGRATS ANON! your lucky pick happens to be the exact song that IBW is titled from--the title of the fic is "'ill be waiting here till the stars fall out of the sky" with the acronym I use being the first three words of the line

in return you win a snippet of the fanfic since it feels weird to write a "drabble" based off it when i have a 26k wip based off it already LOL

so here. have a piece of scene from chapter 3:

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ───

BEEP!

Ren flattened his ears. 

BEEP!

“What is that?” he asked, but Doc was already hastily getting to his feet. It appeared he’d shoved one of the journals into his interior lab coat pocket, though. 

BEEP!

“Tango’s monitor,” he said, already halfway out the door. Ren scrambled to his feet and skidded out into the hallway after him. 

BEEP!

“Dude, it’s so loud!” Ren yelled. 

BEEP!

“Do you wanna miss it?”

BEEP!

“No! Of course not!”

BEEP!

They raced into the room, Ren just on Doc’s heels. He didn’t know what he expected to find–Tango, half dead perhaps?–but the image that greeted them was a half alive Tango sitting up in his bed, several wires in hand. 

Doc switched the machine off, giving Ren’s ears a reprieve from the noise. “Tango?” he said. “Are you okay?”

Tango blinked, and looked down at his hand, still clutching the IV line. “There’s a lot of wires here.”

“Yeah, buddy, you kind of need those,” Ren joked. “Wanna let Doc put ‘em back? I promise I’ll keep an eye on him, he won’t get up to anything funny.”

“No,” Tango said, and stood up. He swayed a little as his feet touched the floor, and Doc reached forward to steady him but he swatted the hand away. “I’m sick of wires.”

“How do you feel?” Doc ventured. He had a skeptical look on his face, and Ren couldn’t help but mirror it, because if Tango felt anything like he looked, it certainly wasn’t good. The hours of mostly drug-induced rest had only done him so much good.

Tango gave a short laugh, dry and hoarse. “I’ve been better.”

“You’ve looked better,” Ren said. 

“Hey, don’t kick a man while he’s down,” Tango joked, but it fell flat. “I just . . . I woke up. And I thought. I want a respawn. I made a mistake when you asked me earlier. I need a respawn.” 

“Are you sure?” Doc said. “You told me you didn’t want to die.”

Tango shook his head. He looked distant. “I can’t be of any help like this,” he muttered. “It hurts. I just need a respawn.”

“I can do that,” Doc said. “How would you like–”

“Anything!” Tango cried sharply. “Please. Anything. Make it stop. Harming, a sword, suffocation, or just–” he rattled the IV stand next to him “--put something in here strong enough to kill me. Just make it stop.”

“Okay, okay,” Doc said. “You ripped out the IV so I’ll just–I can use the sword.”

“The dying doesn’t matter,” Tango said softly, almost like he was now talking to himself and not to the rest of them. “I didn’t expect I was going to live anyway.”

What?

#quara asks #im ngl. i sort of forgot i wrote this scene and caused MYSELF psychic damage rereading it #tango #docm77 #rendog #hermitcraft #quara fanfic #here's your first example of a non-grian pov in the series #quara compass series #suicide mention #IT'S NOT REALLY? i just have no idea what sort of tw this requires but it definitely skews a little dark

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As for IBW, I said i would release it by the end of November and I obviously haven't. I'm ammending that to the end of this year (before Christmas, as I will be gone the whole last week of December)

Essentially, I posted the Grumbot fanfic less than a week ago, and I wanted to space them a little bit more. I also wanted more time to review the first chapter to ensure that it's okay to post. Sometimes I go back and tweak old chapters to be more in alignment with new writing, so that's one reason i prefer to post fics only after they're completed. However, that may take a long time with IBW, so I will start posting it soon.

I have a question for y'all though: Is it bad AO3 ettiquete to update a completed fic just to let people know there is a sequel out? I didn't create the series until a few months after HTBAHB was finished, so I imagine that a lot of people did not see that it was added to a series. They'd only get notified about the sequel if they followed the series or if they followed me as an author. HTBAHB has 271 bookmarks (all) and the series only has 10 bookmarks (public). it isn't possible on AO3 afaik to see how many people subscribe to a series, but HTBAHB itself has 239 subscriptions.

i've seen people do this on fics before but does it like. annoy people to receive a short notification update on a story about a sequel? i would delete it later. i just have no idea if people appreciate it or not lol

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