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To the Jiara fandom:

I love you all. I personally won’t be watching part 2, but this ship and the fandom will always be so special to me. You all truly made the last four years so much better, and I’ll never not appreciate what Jiara did for all of our mental health during COVID. I’ve made some of the best friends and had some of the best experiences I’ve ever had because of them.

I know we’re all pissed and varying levels of upset, but we had a great three and a half seasons and so many fics/so much fan content. You may not want to engage with it anymore and that’s okay, but thank you all for all the great convos over the years. 🩵

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JJ not dead, keep calm and carrying on writing Jiara

Even if he wasn't/isn't, if they bring him back somehow, the damage is done. I just don't know what purpose that would serve with the writing and cast chemistry this far gone.

As for him living on in fic, I totally get you! I hope that people will still feel inspired to continue writing for JJ and giving him that depth and happiness we never got to see fully realized on screen! I'm still trying to hold on to some of my aus because they're more separate from the show, but I'm really not sure if I'll be writing in canon again. We'll have to see with time.

Hope you're doing okay!!!! ❤️ Thank you for this encouragement, anon!!! ❤️

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The devastation is real

I'm right there with you, anon 😭 I still haven't fully reconciled what happened, and I'm not sure how I will 💔

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Are you okay because I’m fucking not

No!

Hope you're finding a way to have some peace, anon ❤️ We're in this together!

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How do you predict Kiara’s parents come back into the storyline in part 2? Sounds like they’re in a couple eps

Well, I'll tell you what I didn't predict! A complete lack of consistency and continuity in character development, as well as giant holes in the storytelling! Like sure, OBX has always had its issues, BUT NOT THIS BAD!!!!! Not sure what's worse, the idea that scenes were cut or if this was how they actually wrote it. How did we go from the Carreras basically cutting the Pogues out to helping them HOW DID WE GET HERE????? How was every character ruined so egregiously 😭

Sorry I took forever, and I'm even more sorry for the state of things now 💔 Hope you're doing as well as one can be, anon.

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our boy JJ needs to be whipped into shape in part 2 sorry but I’m going to need Kie in some real ass danger to get his head in the game and show more feeling toward her and realize her and the pogues are his home and his family no matter where he or any of them come from

And I was so sure we were gonna get it - him showing more affection and love for Kiara, JJ finally having some happiness, that all of this would have some massive payoff 😭 I'm sorry I took so long and now here we are, grieving together!

Hope you're doing okay given the circumstances 💔

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JJ drifts, aimless. Thinks he understands Luke better than he ever has, watching the infinite stretch of water, the light-painted waves reaching for some faraway place. But the thing Luke could never do, that everyone suffered for, was anchor himself. JJ doesn’t know where he is, what he is, but there’s only ever been one anchor for him.

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Read the rest here on ao3!

[obxtober 2024: 4b spec, missing scene]

OBX screencaps by the talented and lovely @kiekiecarrera ❤️

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six weeks of breathing clean air, I still miss the smoke

for obxtober 2024

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Jiara obxtober fics from you are coming??? Oh I am so excited!! Thank you for blessing us

ANON, this is so lovely and encouraging; thank you endlessly!!! 🥹❤️

Just posted an update on let it rip to kick things off, and hoping to have more coming soon.

Thank YOU for reading and all your support!!! 💕 I'm personally winning so hard with some of my favorite creators contributing! 🥳🪩

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"Why the hell do I need to go to–” Snatching up the paper Kiara’d shoved at her, she screeches, “Cleo’s? This isn’t even in Kildare!”

“They've been operating forever and will train you pro bono, so–”

“So they owe you then?” Sarah accuses. “Willing to take some dead weight off your hands to call it even, is that it?”

“I’m trying to help you,” Kiara rages, the onion victimized by her rapid fire blade.

“No one asked for your help!” No one helped Sarah when she was stuck in that stall; no one saved her from those blinding, glittery stage lights. She’d smiled and starved and saved herself all on her own.

There was a time she’d felt horrible, even responsible, for the rift between her and Kiara. Wondered why she tried so hard at everything except this one thing. But now, crumpling up Cleo’s address in her hand, she wonders if Kiara is banking on her not trying at all.

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Read chapter 4 here on ao3!

[obxtober 2024: au, lyrics], [jiara week 2023 - day 5: based on a book/movie/show], [jiara bingo - coworkers]

jiara screencaps below from the one and only @kiekiecarrera ❤️

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Ready for your obxtober fics (missed you)

Anon, I missed YOU and writing our favorites!!!! 🥹❤️ This made may day; thank you so much for the encouragement! I have two fics that are pretty close to ready to go (one new, one chapter update), so here's hoping! 🤞

Other than that, I opened one other wip chapter, and have been browsing the prompts, so I hope to keep the steam going! I've been focusing a lot on part one and content, and then I'll suddenly have a moment of like...what we're gonna see in part 2 and I LOSE MY FUCKING MIND OH MY GOD HFAOWHEOFH THERE'S STILL HALF THE SEASON I'M UNWELL!!!!!! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!!!!

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KIARA CARRERA & JJ MAYBANK in OUTER BANKS, 4x02 “Blackbeard” ❤️‍🩹

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Rudy Pankow As JJ Maybank In Outer Banks S4 - The Enduro (2024)

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OUTER BANKS ｜S01E01 "Pilot" vs S04E04 "The Enduro"

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Man there’s just a certain buzz about pre-show/canon/kook year jiara fics 🙏🏼

I AGREE ANON I never get tired of the pre-canon and Kook year dialogue/narratives, even though the show's basically given us nothing LMAO!!!! What lines to just toss in there and never bring up again 🤠 I'd take an entire spinoff series focusing on how the Pogue group came together, then Kiara in her Kook year and the tension with the Pogues, specifically JJ! Her rise to Kook prominence with Sarah, as well as her downfall. Imagine the unsaid words, the longing, the conflict 🤩 I'd take a whole spinoff series on the adults, too! Damn, that could be so interesting, exploring the dynamics between Anna, Luke, Mike, Heyward, Ward, unnamed moms, and now, even Larissa!

Thank goodness we have fic to feed us! I'm fairly confident we'll be getting some great pre-canon/Kook year fic through @obxtober!🥳🪩

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You know, we're in here for 12 hours.

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1x01 || 4x01