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Back to pure Romestewy. I'm so excited. This one has been close to my heart for a while so I'm stoked to put words to it. A real classic "boy meets boy's best friend's brother after a long time apart and romance ensues" story.

#rambling #romestewy

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*chanting* happy ending! happy ending!

Can't say I'm not leaning towards it. We're in the realm of "based on" here anyway! It's definitely not a 1:1 adaptation. If this plotline was in a reboot the fans would roast me.

I did the math and in Succession fandom I've written 26 stories, only 2 with downer endings. Let that say what it might, I suppose.

#asks #fleabag au

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love the new fic!!!!! looking forward to meeting jeryd. will your fic have a similar ending to fleabag?

I'm so glad, thank you! <3 <3 I'm speeding up the plotline of the show some so we can get to Priest/Roman, but a lot of it wouldn't have really meshed anyway. I'm excited to get to him, too.

Ah, the ending. I'm still debating that. I don't like writing downer endings in my romance when I can, but who knows, it might be poignant. I guess the answer is I'm going to see what feels right when I get closer to that time. (Knowing that the Priest semi-canonically holds a torch too is a little bit of motivation to fix the ending, I'll say that.)

#asks #fleabag au

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Ch 6 of "the only road i've ever been down", Nacho/Lalo, Jesse/Jane, rated E. Part of an AU where Nacho and Lalo saw visions of the future and allied to take down Gus Fring to run Albuquerque, folding in the events of Breaking Bad and Jesse and Walter. In this chapter, Jesse and Walter's plot plays out, and Nacho and Lalo have to deal with the consequences.

#my fic #nacho x lalo #lacho #jesse x jane #brba fic #bcs fic

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Ch 1 of "a bite of the apple," Roman/Mencken, brief Roman/OFC, rated E. An AU based on the TV series "Fleabag," which gives us a broken and cynical Roman meeting and sparking a wild connection with a very different kind of priest in Jeryd Mencken. This chapter establishes a few things; we'll meet Jeryd next chapter, but join me when you can.

#my fic #romencken #romemencken #roman x mencken

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everything I wanted by Billie Eilish= Bea vibes

Yes, absolutely. Officially. "Like I'm not just somebody's daughter" got me specifically, but there's much more than that there. The search for meaning and self and the struggle to get there, again, absolutely.

#asks #dead kendall au

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Nothing wrong with taking a break

Thank you - it's definitely necessary on occasion to sit back and read and stay off Google Drive for a bit, that's for sure. I really enjoy writing and I never want it to feel like a chore.

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Completed what I think is my fourth slate - hard to keep track when some stuff overlapped slates, but that's my guess. That last slate clocked in at over half a million words, which would probably explain why I'm currently so desperately in need of a break. Burnout is not welcome here.

I posted about a fic idea I had a couple of days ago, but I think I've decided against it. Maybe it's straight into the slate. I suppose I was just nervous going into a new crop.

I may wait until later this week to start writing again, just so I'm not knotted up about it. I've just been working hard lately and, whew. Some breathing room might be good.

#rambling

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She folds her paws like this

#cats #cats of tumblr #pets

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Ch 16 of "the beauty of a secret," Roman/Mencken, rated E. The final chapter, covering Jeryd's campaign, the birth of their son, and some resolution with the Roys.

#my fic #romencken #roman x mencken #romemencken

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I know you said you were done with dkau but I gotta say I loved the Bea future fic and I think you could do sequel stuff from Logan and Alexander’s pov. Maybe when they’re college age or in their twenties? Just a thought.

Oh wow, this is great, thank you 😭 it's such a weird little niche fic that I'm so grateful. These actually sound really interesting, because Logan was so interesting to explore and Alex has such potential. I mean for Alex to become an actor and Logan a lawyer, so they're very different but still very close. Those are my earliest thoughts, though!

#asks #dead kendall au

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Hit with the maybe-irresistible urge to write what would decisively be a one-shot. It would delay the next slate, but I've spent a lot of time offhandedly thinking of this pairing and how it imploded, and I think it's about time that I dig into at least one version of the events. Roman/Grace is a mystery in canon and I want to explore it. I can't imagine it would cause that much of a delay - certainly not as much of a delay as the (probably) one-shot Tomgreg I'm looking at would.

I don't know, I'm just rambling to myself at this point, but there's a good chance I'll take a break to write a one-shot before the next slate starts.

#rambling #roman x grace

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#no heterosexual explanation #star trek #star trek tos #james kirk

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So Dead Kendall AU is complete, which is weird. Between all four stories, it clocks in at what is arguably just under 300k. It feels a lot longer to me, probably because this was actually very taxing to write, especially at a few real low points in the arc. It probably didn't help that a lot of those chapters clock in above 10k on their own. I don't know why I am the way I am, everyone, I really don't.

One chapter left in "the beauty of a secret," then it's onto the next slate. (I'll dip into Breaking Bad AU before I start my next Succession fic, but it's definitely within sight.) Hope some of you join me.

#rambling

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Final Dead Kendall AU updates

Rather than spam my page, I'm going to put all the final updates for the Dead Kendall AU here and just put a wall of tags. All told, this is 17k, 4k, and 32k respectively, so if anyone takes their time reading even half of this, I won't be mad.

In which we have Logan's funeral, the birth of Roman's son, and the two leads have some pretty big realizations before we wind everything up.

In which Naomi, Rava, and Iverson come to terms with a lot of things, and grief shows the substantial mark it's made.

A fic set in the future of the Dead Kendall AU, set in the teen years of Bea Roy, Logan Wambsgans, and Alex Roy. When Bea starts to have symptoms that mirror her dead father's, the Roy family reacts with appropriate concern, even as she struggles to understand what's really going on. A later arc shows her as an older teen struggling with a shift in her mental illness and substance abuse only to truly tangle with the legacy her dad left behind.

#my fic #dead kendall au #romestewy #romstewy #roman x stewy #romencken #stewy x jeryd #naomi x rava #rometabs

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Someone just liked this post again after I was saying previously I had no ideas for Tomgreg - about a year ago I had this one idea! It's just a bud of something that I'm sure I could get more of a plot from. I'm reblogging it to tag it for prompts so I remember it's here.

What are your plans for tomgreg? I always think of Greg as having way more control over Tom then it looks like because I think he’s completely aware of the effect he has on Tom. And he’s a gold digger like Tom.

The thought is, Kendall stays CEO and shuts out the other sibs, Tom figures out a way to stand next to him, and Greg follows in his wake. Shiv is out of the picture - she's walked away from all of it, traumatized by Kendall, Tom, the baby. Tom is very, very alone. He's also very powerful, and Greg also knows that he's in Tom's head. It isn't hard to seduce him.

But the paradigm is different now. Tom's very damaged by everything that went on with Shiv. He's playing tough but it's pretty obvious he's struggling. He's not struggling in the way he was while certain he was going to prison, but instead he's out at sea. He has everything he ever wanted, and he doesn't regret anything he did to get it, but he still feels sad. Tom doesn't like feeling sad.

Greg is not really the greatest person to have around when you're having emotional problems. It might look like he understands emotional problems, but he really understands his emotional problems, can recognize them in others, without having a real sense of what to do to bring anyone emotional peace or resolution. It's making him the least optimal boytoy for Tom to have right now for his sanity's sake; but in Greg's mind, this is an opportunity to make himself indispensable to Tom's psyche. It's easy to slowly get it through to him. Tom needs Greg. Tom will be okay, as long as Greg's there for him.

Eventually, they're happy, affectionate in their own way, and Greg's got him eating out of the palm of his hand. They'll never be out, but that's okay. Greg really does like Tom, mostly, and Tom has no desire to investigate how deep it goes because his goes much deeper. He knows from past experience it's better not to know.

#prompts #tomgreg

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I’m thinking about Marcia telling Willa that story about the prostitute who was murdered over a failed restaurant. Seems like godmother energy.

Oh yeah, for sure. Marcia says what she wants to say and doesn't care if she makes people uncomfortable. Bringing her freshly into the fray after Logan's been single for a while and the kids had gotten used to him just womanizing without anything they had to seriously deal with - and she's like this? There's potential here for this.

I would say Roman probably definitely resented Marcia at first in canon when she walked in without giving a shit what they thought about her but didn't have the guts to say anything. It probably helped that in canon Roman was likely in LA when the marriage took place, so he didn't have to deal with her head-on besides awkwardly meeting her at the wedding or brief special occasions. A full-on collision is what we'll see in this fic, though.

#asks #fleabag au