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would you guys ever make “official” fanart for the fic? (if any of you guys are artists, besides the art that is the fic)

yes we would and have before!!! suni has posted at least three acswy related pieces which i can find later and edit this post to add :) we also desperately need to go through the blog and find all the art others have made for the fic and make a tag for that too!!

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will we eventually see another camp games 👀👀

probably not :’) i know we debated the idea of having a second camp games happen off screen, but it ended up not fitting in anywhere within the chapters we have left. there are other camp activities on the horizon tho!!

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okay so while I was reading the fic, for some reason, I thought Mitchell and Justin had a thing? Like maybe I'm reading too much into things but idk they're always together and they seem pretty close. I couldn't find if anyone mentioned it in the comments on AO3 or on tumblr.

they do!!! 👀 it’s been pretty subtle in the fic, but i know we mentioned on tumblr at some point that justin and mitchell had spent their free day off together the day before mike and will had their free day in chapter 9!!

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i saw a shirt that said "weezer? i hardly know her" and for some reason my very first thought was acswy mike

filed under the following: mike buys this shirt at a thrift store and thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world because of the joke format and also the fact that wheezing. asthma. haha. then he randomly has an asthma attack while wearing it and lucas burns it 😍

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anyway. anyone want a twip twursday

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i was answering this ask at the same time as suni (this happens so often ����) so my additional two cents is that we have the entire fic outline, and then usually also have a chapter-specific outline so that we are able to script dialogue and really flesh out those gaps like suni said! we did share the outline for chapter 9 if that is something you’re interested in seeing!!

also because we are Insane and want to make sure we are consistent and getting across key points, especially during these next few chapters where we are having several climaxes one after the other (feelings realizations and, as i am sure you can all guess so it’s not a spoiler, confronting those feelings and what to do with them), we also made a specific roadmap for this stretch of chapters so that we don’t forget anything. tee and also hee.

this is what happens when you are Insane and your brains are making out sloppy all the time 🙂‍↕️

how developed is the plot of a chapter before you write it? like do you tend to write a loose outline of the plot before hand and fill in extra details later? or is everything thought out, in order, before your first draft? just curious how other people go about their writing processes. also saw the twip tuesday and got so excited!!💕💕 amazing as always.

pretty much every major scene for every chapter has been thought up and outlined since the beginning! it’s a long fic with a lot going on so continuity regarding major plot points or themes has always been very important to us. however, pretty much every chapter has also had some gaps in the master outline where we haven’t thought of something in advance, or we’ve left those sections open to allow for some more creative liberty depending on how the rest of the chapter/the preceding chapters have turned out. we sometimes also have a concept for a scene planned that we scrap and replace, maybe because it feels repetitive to something we’ve already written or it just doesn’t really fit the direction the previous chapters have steered us towards. and sometimes we literally come up with something As we are drafting and text each other about it to get some on-the-fly input and feedback. basically the super important stuff has been pretty set in stone for a while, but there are also times when we don’t know we are going to write something until we’re basically already writing it lol. hope this helps! so glad you enjoyed the snip :-)

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how developed is the plot of a chapter before you write it? like do you tend to write a loose outline of the plot before hand and fill in extra details later? or is everything thought out, in order, before your first draft? just curious how other people go about their writing processes. also saw the twip tuesday and got so excited!!💕💕 amazing as always.

pretty much every major scene for every chapter has been thought up and outlined since the beginning! it’s a long fic with a lot going on so continuity regarding major plot points or themes has always been very important to us. however, pretty much every chapter has also had some gaps in the master outline where we haven’t thought of something in advance, or we’ve left those sections open to allow for some more creative liberty depending on how the rest of the chapter/the preceding chapters have turned out. we sometimes also have a concept for a scene planned that we scrap and replace, maybe because it feels repetitive to something we’ve already written or it just doesn’t really fit the direction the previous chapters have steered us towards. and sometimes we literally come up with something As we are drafting and text each other about it to get some on-the-fly input and feedback. basically the super important stuff has been pretty set in stone for a while, but there are also times when we don’t know we are going to write something until we’re basically already writing it lol. hope this helps! so glad you enjoyed the snip :-)

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anyway. anyone want a twip twursday

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anyway. anyone want a twip twursday

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i really admire how u stand up for urselves with the release dates and headcanons and shit. so many people think they can walk all over writers who are putting in so much work for them

thank you for saying this! i will say that we have received far more support than we have anything to the contrary, and we certainly haven't handled every situation that's fallen into our laps completely perfectly, but i do think there has been some mind boggling behavior we've been presented with and it's not something we were really anticipating having to react to. i'm beating a dead horse at this point, but we never imagined just how much attention this fic would get, and while it is so cool and fun and rewarding 99% of the time, there is that 1% that is unfortunately very loud sometimes. suni and i are sensitive people at best, and while we are good at ignoring when things get too rowdy, there are times that we have to put our foot down -- namely, when people are a) trying to stake a claim in ownership over this universe and dictate things about characters they had no hand in developing and b) putting us on a pedestal and turning our relationship with our readers into something corporate (not the band). to be dogpiled on after disagreeing with a headcanon (that was phrased as a question, mind you, and became a big deal when they didn't get the answer they wanted) or sent rude asks because life is making it hard to get an upload out are things that we think are hostile in a way that we haven't been. which again, is not to say we are perfect -- we get sassy, we can be really reactive -- but we both definitely believe in matching energy, and when things escalate we will rise to it. lol. we are so glad that we have this community of people who share the same passion for this universe that we do, and even more glad that the majority of that community is so respectful of us and our choices and give us space to be human, whether that mean standing up for ourselves or taking 6 months between uploads. it's been so reassuring to know that the work we put into this fic and this universe is not transactional 💗

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one of my coworkers literally owns mike wheeler’s car.

ok so do you work at camp whiteman.

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i forgot that you guys have us on post notifs. hiiiii everyone 👋🥰

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hey cuties! just checking in to see how you guys are doing, it’s been a few weeks and ik your lives have been pretty stressful so i’m just coming on here to say that we all love and care for you guys sm and all the hard work and dedication you’ve put into making this fic beyond amazing for all of us. just reminding you that you don’t owe anyone anything and we wish the absolute best for both of you!! 🩷

heelllloooo!!! thank you for checking in (and for everyone who has over the past few weeks) -- we really, truly appreciate it!

we are both doing alright! it's been a bit touch and go for both of us since august, really. suni moved back home and was dealing with that change + a disastrous commute, and my (thea) work schedule completely changed and had zero stability, and as someone who really relies on routine, it completely threw me off and made things hard to handle. now that my work schedule is mostly back to normal and suni has been adjusting a lot better (and now has a SUNIMOBILE which helps with the commute a lot), we have been doing muuuuch better <3

thank you for all your support and most importantly grace as we have been working to get this next chapter out to you! suni is finally coming out of the creative rut Life Circumstances has put her in and while we won't be giving an estimated upload date, we are both feeling confident that the end is in sight soon. we hope that it's all worth the wait! for now, just know that we are both in better places and hope to return to being more active on here soon!

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love chapters 4 and 5 of acswy

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no one told me that the wellbutrin club would feel like this 👁️👁️🤢

how are you guys doing?

honestlyyy we have both been going through it for a minute which you guys probably have picked up on from our very unplanned absence on here 😗 our work schedules have just been so crazy and we have had some personal stuff going on at both ends so we have been existing in a kind of default state of complete and total exhaustion for like a month i fear. but we are now 1. medication twinsies which is so silly of us actually and 2. getting therapized on the regular so hopefully we will both feel more normal soon and get our creative energy back and be more active online again 🥳 (thea is also actively being blown away by the hurricane right now so everyone please manifest that she stays safe and dry and doesn’t end up floating away down the gulf because i would miss her and be so sad.) thank you for asking i hope you’re doing well! 🫶🏽

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how are you guys doing?

honestlyyy we have both been going through it for a minute which you guys probably have picked up on from our very unplanned absence on here 😗 our work schedules have just been so crazy and we have had some personal stuff going on at both ends so we have been existing in a kind of default state of complete and total exhaustion for like a month i fear. but we are now 1. medication twinsies which is so silly of us actually and 2. getting therapized on the regular so hopefully we will both feel more normal soon and get our creative energy back and be more active online again 🥳 (thea is also actively being blown away by the hurricane right now so everyone please manifest that she stays safe and dry and doesn’t end up floating away down the gulf because i would miss her and be so sad.) thank you for asking i hope you’re doing well! 🫶🏽

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#WHY IS THERE A STAR IN THE FOREST

great question @wayward-sherlock ! 😇

hopefully this aids you all in your endeavors to shift realities to camp whiteman