#I don't even know what happened

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

[emotional-mess-in-distress]

My experience waking up this morning.

[eliashirsch]

Now that I've uploaded all the chapters for What Was Three Has Become One, it is time for me to tell you how much thinking I had to go through to get to the final draft.

Heads up, there will be SPOILERS, so if you haven't read the story yet, click here!

So in the final draft, Mav and Ice met in 2019 for the battle against Barb-E (good job me, for making that name up) and they have a year together to get to know each other and develop feelings until the Knifehead incident where (spoilers!) Goose died. Then obviously, they drift apart and don't meet again until 2025.

In the first draft, I actually wrote how they only met briefly in 2019, and is only going to get to know each other on 2025. I wrote 3/4 into that draft before i realized that their relationship wouldn't have enough time to develop, given the third act happens in a span of weeks, and there wouldn't be enough *drama* and *suspense*.

This are actually Mav and Ice's on screen interaction before Knifehead. And while fanfiction doesn't exactly follow story rules to a t, if this was an original novel, it's not enough time to properly introduce the characters to let the readers get attached to them, or to even think that they're compatible with each other. It's just too short.

So I had to go back later and add more scenes with them, turning the draft from 50k to 85k.

(Also, peep the penguin restaurant. It's only mentioned by name, but became a more special place later on.)

[quincyhorst]

...Days ago, I had changed my tumblr blog's Desktop Header to a very specific scene that featured the three EuroB logos together (As to be more in brand with this blog's current focus 🚬) but midway through some other edits the whole thing glitched out and now ONLY Brockenborg's emblem is shown. That's it.

HELP-

[lumhere]

Did annihilate just throw a whole minute worth of attack all at once or was it lag ? Didn't even go back to the beginning upon breaking everybody :D

and then it just went off center, like ?

where are you going ?????

[jimmyjrsmusoems]

me : these valentine’s day one shots are going to be short and easy to write :) 

also me : writes SIX PAGES about chloe and louise

[actuallysara]

can you believe I forgot my suitcase at a metro ticket machine one hour after landing, who the heck allowed me to travel by myself exactly ???

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[mroddmod]

they are like puppies. 2 me

[roadimusprime]

hey you spelled pfp on mine !

😎

[angelexlife]

Not a good food day

[artist-rat]

some epilogue vibes (an excuse to draw some hugs. and my durge so many times)

[pinkomcranger]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Alan Wake (Video Games), Alan Wake 2 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Saga Anderson/Alex Casey Characters: Saga Anderson, Alex Casey (Alan Wake), Original Male Character (mentioned) Additional Tags: Workplace Sex, Workplace Relationship, Semi-Public Sex, Cunnilingus, Oral Sex, Praise Kink, Dirty Talk, Begging, Light Dom/sub, Hair-pulling, Vaginal Fingering, Partners with Benefits, Teasing, Multiple Orgasms, Secret Relationship, Jealousy, Possessive Behavior, Saga's fine with it, alex casey is a simp, they're down bad for each other, Making Out, Casey is a little shit, Agent Alex Casey: Professional panty thief, no beta we die like Taken, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot Summary:

“Lock the door and close the blinds.” A rush of heat ran through her at his order, and she hurried to do what he said.

It always bothered her when somebody told her what to do, even when it was work-related. It chafed her when somebody thought they knew better than her, or thought they could order her around for whatever reason. And yet, when Casey ordered her to do something, she did, because it never sounded like he thought she was an errant child.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

My Great Grandma who loved her babies very much

Reference that I used for the face!

[aniseandspearmint]

I am curious, bc I just ran across one of those, 'everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 happened!' things so-

This isn't meant to be a commentary on the event, just whether or not you remember where you were/what you were doing when the news hit.

As an example, I was home sick, doing dishes, when mom yelled for me to get in the living room RIGHT NOW.

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

Hot take maybe but I think Bertie would be FAR more likely to survive the first two months of Dracula than Jeeves would be. Bertie has a healthy sense of self-preservation. Jeeves consistently underestimates how dangerous a situation might get (Steeple Bumpleigh, the club book) because he’s overconfident about his level of control over any given situation. He'd handle Dracula masterfully if they faced off in England, but on Dracula's home turf? Much more doubtful.

I realize this might be a tough sell, so I will explain further (or it's not a tough sell, and I'm going to explain further because I want to). (criteria taken from @canyourfavesurvivecastledracula) Without further ado.

Would Jeeves and Wooster survive Castle Dracula?

Jeeves

Jeeves' survival will depend on how long Dracula finds him more entertaining than irritating. On that basis, I don't think he's long for this world. On the one hand, he has a huge wealth of knowledge about English society and culture that he can recite perfectly from memory. That should buy him at least a little time with noted teaboo Dracula.

On the other hand, he would be absolutely no fun as a vampire plaything. Jeeves cannot be got. Sneaking up on him while he's shaving will yield zero reaction (though that's at least good for his short-term survival--given that, although he DID take the crucifix from the old woman out of politeness, he certainly isn't going to wear it. The rules of fashion don't go out the window just because you're in a spooky castle). Then, although managing the whims of rich jerks is not an insignificant part of a valet's job, Jeeves usually does this by bending his employers to his will. Dracula is not the sort of employer this will work on. It'll just add insult to injury when on top of being impossible to scare, NOW Jeeves is telling Dracula that his favorite cloak is several centuries out of fashion and he's not allowed to wear it anymore.

Jeeves will 100% go exploring in the areas he was told not to go-- though to be fair, he MIGHT actually get away with this, what with his superpower of appearing in rooms without being seen or heard. Said superpower might save him from the brides as well (though this is by no means guaranteed). Since I find it doubtful that Dracula would come to rescue his annoying ass, not being noticed is his best defense.

There are a couple other things working in Jeeves's favor; the question is just whether they'll be enough to save him.

He DOES know shorthand, and could try to send coded letters. He might even have the foresight to squirrel away some extra stationary where Dracula can't find it. But could he get them posted? Would it even do him any good?

He certainly has enough cultural literacy to figure out what his new boss is pretty quickly. If he didn't chuck the crucifix out the carriage window, he might start carrying it around in his pocket.

Psychology of the individual, sure, but the individual in question is a 400-year-old vampire who lives in an isolated castle in a foreign country and is regarded as a terrifying mythological figure in the surrounding villages. Jeeves has never come up against anything this alien before, he's cut off from his normal resources, and opportunities to play people against each other are limited.

He probably has enough upper body strength from all that shrimping and fishing to climb the wall, so he COULD escape if he wanted to, if he survived long enough. It's just, again, that overconfidence, and also Dracula has a vast library full of rare old books that are entirely at his disposal. He's keeping his eyes and ears alert for potential escape strategies, of course, but I don't see him being as desperate to get out as Jonathan was.

There are just a lot of "depends on"s here, and I'm not convinced that luck would shake out in Jeeves's favor, all things considered.

Bertie

Bertie is so perfect for the job of Castle Dracula Prisoner it's like it was made for him. Think about it. Being held against his will in big manor houses comes more naturally to him than breathing. He's afraid of things that are scary. A lifetime of dealing with Aunt Agatha has made him the world's preeminent expert in "curl[ing] up in a ball in the hope that a meek subservience [will] enable [him] to get off lightly." He will NEVER go exploring in places he's been warned away from if nobody is forcing him to (Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's office notwithstanding. There were biscuits in there). He's both fun to talk to and easy to toy with (and extremely English). A+ prisoner. Dracula adores him.

In my opinion, Bertie is at Castle Dracula either because Aunt Agatha got some wires seriously crossed and thinks he’s going to meet an eligible potential bride (I mean, there are certainly brides there), or because Dracula has something Aunt Dahlia wants him to steal (far less likely, given that one of Dracula’s THINGS is famously not owning anything silver). Either way, he's shown himself entirely willing and able to escape down drainpipes if a sitch gets too scaly.

He DOES take the crucifix, and DOES wear it (which is what will save him during the shaving scene, because you KNOW he's going to jump a foot and cut himself like the dickens). He's read enough supernatural goosefleshers to be genre savvy about terrified old women cryptically pushing crucifixes into one's hands. I also think his sunny disposish endeared him to the villagers, and they were particularly vehement about urging him not to go. He doesn't speak German or Romanian, but he's empathetic enough to recognize Pure Terror. So by the time he actually gets to the castle, his imagination is already running wild and he's plenty aware that he is in imminent danger.

I think the biggest risk to Bertie will be the brides; whether or not he's susceptible to trances, if he thinks they're trying to marry him, it's against the code of the Woosters to turn them down. But that only becomes an issue if he comes face to face with them, which, luckily, I think is unlikely on account of the aforementioned "won't go exploring" (and if he did, Dracula would definitely rescue him).

I'm inclined to say due to his drainpipe-escape habits that he WOULD be able to climb the wall and MAY attempt to sneak into Dracula's room to look for the keys if his desperation grows to outweigh his fear. Whether he does or not, though, he does NOT have the stomach to attempt shovel murder, and therefore won't get magic brain fever, and may very well simply walk out the front doors when the people come to take the boxes away. OR he climbs his way out like Jonathan did. Either way.

When Bertie tells this story at the Drones later, Tuppy will say that no doubt it's been greatly exaggerated and all that probably happened was that he spent a couple months in an oldish house entertaining a weird loner.