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If you're missing Christmas you can go back with the final chapter of my super fluffy Christmas fic.

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i’m late to the party but can we hear about dramatrauma fic?

Thank you for the ask!

Oh man, so sit back and I apologize now for the overly long response.

Dramatrauma fic technically has a title, and has for a year but it's too long so I keep trying to change it, but then I always come back.

However the title, which is We Didn't Know that the Sun was Collapsing (Til the Seas Rose and the Buildings Came Crashing) is from my favorite Noah Kahan song and that line is what solidified like the overall plot and gave me the idea to merge two fics into one.

This both the most and least written of all the wips. I both love it and I hate it and I'm so excited about it and I resent it for bringing into stark clarity all my weaknesses in crafting a story.

The story is set when Ellie 14 and Sarah is 19 and Ellie's mom shows back up after about a year of no contact and Ellie starts seeing her. Things are going well and then her mom drops that she has a new boyfriend and she's living with him and it's serious, (*whispers* maybe he's a middle school math teacher) And it goes from there.

To not give to much away here are things I have googled in writing this story.

How far can you fall and still fully recover?

Medically induced comas: When? Why? How?

How does temporary guardianship work?

How does emergency guardianship work?

Can you pretty make your own custody arrangement as long as everyone agrees.

I will say Joel ends up in the hospital and while on the surface he and Ellie have the worst time, somehow I think Sarah come out the most traumatized.

POV shifts between all three, but most of the middle is from Sarah's POV, which has been very fun to write.

I have the first two chapters completely written, the third about half written and then like chapter 5 is about half written. It is a bit of slow burn with some early detours including Tommy's wedding which may have my favorite thing I've written which is a scene with Ellie trying to stop Joel from talking to a woman at the wedding.

Snip from Chapter 2 is below:

They go to dinner together that night and Ellie sits in the back and watches her parents chat on the drive.

Her mom starts playing with the radio stations and her dad snorts, “you still have to be the DJ?” Her mom laughs, “You still listening to sad country and alternative rock, which by the way is the weirdest combination of music?”

“You still listening to music that came out just two years before you were born and calling yourself an old soul?”

“You’re just jealous of my youth, J.”

“You turn 40 next year, don’t’ you?”

Her mom sniffs, “still younger than you.”

On the way home her parents chat about restaurants they used to go to together and which are still open. They also talk about Uncle Tommy’s wedding next month in Wyoming and some of the crazy women he dated when he was younger.

Ellie is happily full of hamburgers, milkshakes and a whole evening with both of her parents in a good mood, teasing each other and her. She feels a sense of warmth she doesn’t remember ever feeling before and dozes off in the back seat. When she wakes up her mom is rubbing her knee while her dad maneuvers her out of her seatbelt to carry her inside.

She’s never once missed having two parents until this moment.

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A year in the life? For the WIP game? Anything you’re willing share.

Please and thank you 🖤

Thank you for the ask!

It will be be very slice of life, which I love and will cover a year, starting in January and set when Ellie is 10 and Sarah 15. 12 chapters and each chapter will be one day of that month. Not necessarily the most important day or a holiday, just one day and mostly focused on the smaller moments of that day.

It's very much inspired by the song Little Wonders by Rob Thomas, which is where the title of the series is pulled from.

Right now I have several month planned out and POV will alternate mostly between Joel and Sarah. I think for June it will be in Ellie's POV and be something where Sarah's babysitting and they leave home to help a friend of hers or something and then everything goes wrong and they're trying to beat Joel home so he doesn't find out they left home when they're not supposed to.

Right now everything I've written is mostly dialogue, and it's all very rough but here's a bit from January. I've found I like writing morning chaos!

“It’s not my fault I’m younger than everyone else in my grade. If you were going to be so weird about it maybe you should have thought about that before boning mom without protection in October,”

Joel winces, “Sarah. Really?”

“I’m just saying—"

“Haha, Dad had sex with your mom.”

“Yeah. Yours too. How do you think you got here?”

“A Pterodactyl,” Ellie says, not missing a beat. Joel freezes, coffee mug halfway to his mouth. That’s a new one. Ellie continues to calmly eat her cereal, seemingly oblivious to the stares from her family.

“Seriously?” Sarah finally says, “You’re freaking out that I’m kind of dating a guy one year older and she’s walking around saying this.”

“She’s kidding,” he explains to Sarah and glances over at Ellie, who looks at him innocently, “you’re kidding, right?”

“I mean, I’m too cool for a stork.”

“No, that’s not what I…we’re going to have a talk tonight.” Ellie’s eyes widen in horror, she must not have been expecting her bluff to be called.

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New Year, New WIP Ask

Tagged by @messydepressy95. I am several days late and I apologize, it's been a week.

I don't really know who to tag, so if you see this and want to participate, go for it!

The rules: list all your wips (or as many as you feel comfortable sharing), and open your ask box for people to inquire! share the ideas you had, any plans for it, a snip if you're feeling generous! whatever makes your lil heart happy.

I think I have 4(ish)

Currently unnamed dramatraumarama - Everyone has a bad time

Currently unnamed but in WIPS folder as Pt_2 because I started writing it before I had even posted the original story, Happy Birthday Dad. A kind of follow up to the first story... kind of. Joel has a come to Jesus moment.

A Year in the Life - working title that will get changed. Pretty much the title is the description

Currently unnamed but I sometimes call it Summer of Sarah - post college graduation

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i just need you to know i think about poor little 5 year old ellie wanting her dad so bad, and just needing some attention every day. i love it, it changed something in my soul

Oh my gosh, I somehow missed this notification and just saw it! Thank you so much, that is maybe the nicest thing I've been told. Barring disaster, the next chapter will be up this evening and spoiler alert; Ellie will get lots of attention!

And full disclosure, I did have a feet kicking moment when I saw such a nice comment from the author of one of my comfort fics. I read Smoke, Ash and Strays probably once a month.

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The first four chapters of super fluffy Miller family Christmas fluff are up. The fourth chapter is one that made me laugh while I was writing it. Chapter five should be up tomorrow, but I started rewriting half of it so...maybe Sunday.

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It’s my first time doing one of these and I don’t have anyone to tag so I’m already doing it wrong but I’m happy to try! 🤷🏻‍♀️

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

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It's here! I posted the first two chapters of my super fluffy, little Ellie Christmas fic. The third chapter should be posted tomorrow!

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I started a fluffy little Christmas fic set in my little au last Christmas, but got overwhelmed and never got it finished. I start reworking it a couple months ago and Chapter 1 will drop Thanksgiving Day and I'm so stupid excited that I wanted to post a little snippet. The overlying story is five year old Ellie wants it to snow on Christmas, but as all southerners know, to make that happen you need to take it to Santa. ;)

"I think we're going to have a problem," Sarah says as she settles on the couch and grabs the remote.

"And what's that? Joel asks, sitting down beside her, dread already starting to build in his stomach. He can't handle too many more problems.

"Ellie is asking Santa to make it snow for Christmas." Joel blinks at her, is that all, he thinks. Sarah raises her eyebrows to emphasize that she's serious. "Well, I hope she's asking for other stuff, specifically a Jurassic Park Lego set," Joel replies, unsure what else she thinks he can do about that.

Sarah exhales loudly, "Dad! You don't understand; what if she stops believing in Santa when it doesn't snow on Christmas? What if that is what breaks her belief? Can you live with that?"

Joel scrubs his hand over his face. "Baby, she's 5, but she's not dumb; she knows it doesn't snow much here. She probably said that trying to make a joke."

Sarah shakes her head forcefully, curls flying. "No, I think she's serious, and if she's already questioning Santa, and then it doesn’t snow on Christmas that may be what convinces her he's not real. I’m not letting that happen," She crosses her arms and sets her jaw in determination.

“What are you going to do?” Joel asks, slightly concerned.

“I don’t know yet,” she admits, “but I’m not letting her stop believing—" She stops abruptly when she hears the telltale patter of little feet overhead announcing Ellie's imminent arrival.

The full AU series is here. https://archiveofourown.org/series/3774043

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I wrote this last year for Halloween. I was traveling for 3 weeks for work and finishing it was a fun distraction during a stressful time! Modern AU! Sarah lives! Joel is Ellie’s dad! So much family fluff!

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I'm not big on self promotion but I noticed the date and got a little nostalgic!

It's been one year since I found the nerve to post something I'd been sitting on for months; my first attempt at fan fiction in many years. It's possibly the greatest example of writing for yourself. The idea came to me, and I couldn't get it out of my head; it demanded I write it down. I still love it one year later, and I had so much fun writing it over all those months. It's not perfect; I find many, many things I'd change whenever I read through it again, but overall, I love it and the little universe I've created. My only true regret is the title. It was a placeholder title, and the plan was to find a new one before I posted. But I got so anxious that I hit post without changing it. I then went for a run so I wouldn't sit staring at it waiting for responses, and by the time I realized what I'd done, I felt like it was too late to pull and repost. So here we are.

I'm still writing for this universe, I have both a tooth rotting fluff filled Christmas story in progress and an angsty trauma filled story in progress, but my heart kinds of belongs to the one that started it all.

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I wasn't planning to post this or anything really, but I actually finished a multi chapter and went back to re read it and it's not awful so I thought, why not.

It's part of my modern AU where Joel is Ellie's dad and Sarah lives. It's mostly fluffy family shenanigans and is the very definition of writing for yourself.

This one is set over eight Father's Days and is mostly lots of fluff with a little angst thrown in here and there for fun.