#OIAL

[hell-much]

Taking the story I've been mapping out in my head for over a year from this chaos here

to this

So yes. The first (and possibly only) multi-chapter endeavour of 2025 will be a sequel to Once In A Lifetime.

Now watch me slowly lose my mind as the word counts explodes once more and I abandon this neat little layout halfway through the year.

[atlontour]

source

[libraryfag]

talking heads is the closest an all human band can get to the muppets

[andysambcrg]

i think the best thing an album can do is make u wish there were more songs on it and tell me alive gives me that like can we get a deluxe version already i know ur hiding some bangers from me mr gaskarth!!

[enygma0710]

Hi👋Can I ask when the next chapter «Once in a Lifetime» will be updated?❤️

Thanks for the ask and apologies for the delay, I’m just getting back into my account.

Tbh every time I set a deadline for OIAL updates, something comes up and I fail lol so because I’m so superstitious I won’t say when but it is in the works.

Life/work has been extremely busy but I’ve been chipping away and not just working on the next chapter but all the chapters till the end. So to answer your ask anon… soon.

The end is in sight just need work to chill tf out so I can post 😂

Thanks for the ask anon

[suiciderape]

eww isnt it the zombie apo kill ya self fuck nigga

[jackinalex]

i wish i had taken a video of it! it was in hamburg though if that helps with anything! the stage was quite literally parted by a single pillar and you could literally see everything going on behind it as there was nothing like a wall or anything, so for once in a lifetime there we just all standing there, watching alex play

Someone sent me a video of it from twitter a few posts back. Let me get through a few asks and I’ll add it here!

[20th-century-railroading]

EMD SD40 Friday Part II

A pair of Conrail EMD SD40-2's have New Jersey Transit EMD GP40FH-2 4135 (ex-Conrail, exx-PC, exxx-NYC) DIT (dead in tow) as they head West with OIAL (Oak Island-Allentown). No clue where the NJT unit was going, but Juniata is a good guess. Just wonder why they didn't put it on OIPI (Oak Island-Pittsburgh) where it could be set out at Altoona.

South Plainfield, New Jersey May 1990

[itsinthewalls]

COME BUY MIRCH :3 I IN THE.. THE... CEN TRAL OIAL DEES TRECT :D

[cha-melodius]

After reading your fic "Once in a lifetime", I came to ask.

How those it feel to see season 2 and discover that Apollo kind of grace you with the power of profecy??

(Btw, i LOVE your work)

I'm not gonna lie, I had to go back and reread chapter 2 of Once in a Lifetime because I didn't remember writing anything particularly prophetic, but actually? Damn. 😅 Without spoiling the fic, there are a lot of freaky parallels, not in terms of plot, which is quite different, but some of the conversations with Mobius? Wild. Thanks for pointing that out because I honestly did not notice.

For a fic that matches some vibes, namely Loki's time looping (but again not really plot, which I did not predict lol), let me also direct you to It's Been a Bad Day Lately.

And thank you so much!! I'm so thrilled you've been enjoying my fics. I've been terrible about replying to comments on ao3 lately because I've gotten into a big hole in my inbox and it just gets more daunting every day, but getting all of your comments (pretty sure it's you given the timing of this with the comment on OIAL lol) has been so so wonderful and made me so happy.

[textillianfiber]

More swatching.

This time using two OIAL colorways from Fiber Optic Yarns. The green is 081219 and the light blue is 120418.

I am glad that I took the time to do this, because my plan was to do this with the Over the Rainbow Infinity Fade, and this is not turning out as expected. I am also trying to do my selvedges like everyone else in the brioche world.

[hell-much]

How about a sneak peak for that yet-to-be-named sequel?

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Sansa closes the door softly to the sound of soft snoring in her back. Her feet are cold against the wooden boards as she rushes through the dark corridor. The boards creak a few times as she moves along. It sounds excruciatingly loud, but she knows that is only in her ears.

She slips into her clogs at the bottom at the stairs where she can be sure she is out of earshot to a sleeping family. In passing she takes the phone of the sideboard and clamps the cable in the kitchen as she closes it behind herself. Opening the window she breathes in the fresh morning air.

It's still dark outside. The nights are starting to get longer, bright early summer mornings slowly mend into the gloomier days of autumn. Another few weeks and the hours of night will outweigh those of daylight.

Sansa doesn't mind. This year less than ever before.

She fishes a cigarette from the pack and blows a first puff into the cool morning air, while her other hand turns the dial blindly. The dial tone only sounds once. Sansa smiles already before she has uttered a single word, soft fluttery excitement fills her chest.

A sleepy smile sounds in Margaery's voice when she bids her good morning and makes Sansa smile brighter in turn. She wonders if that will ever get old, if there will come a day when she will ever not feel that rush of happiness over hearing Margaery's voice first thing in the morning. She can't imagine it ever passing.

“Did you sleep well?” Sansa asks in a soft exhale, like something could have changed in the six and a half hours since they last spoke.

“Very well.” Margaery's answer comes accompanied by rustling of sheets. She's still in bed. It has been weeks since she got to wake up next to her, she never got to wake up next to her in her place, and yet Sansa can see her vividly. Hair wild. Eyes heavy and nearly closed. Sheets crumbled around her. “And you?”

“Fine.”

“You sound tired.”

Sansa smiles around the cigarette. She can always tell, just by the sound of her voice. “Maybe a little.”

"Finished the skirt?”

“Almost. Provided Alis will like it.”

“I'm sure she will. With a hemline that inappropriate.”

With her head resting against the peeling paint of the window frame, Sansa glances out at a sky that is slowly turning brighter. “You know, I dreamt about you last night.”

“You did?”

“I did.”

“What kind of dream?”

“We were in bed together.”

A small laugh sounds from Margaery. “Were we now?”

“Not like that. We weren't doing anything.”

There's some more rustling, the faint squeaking of springs, like she is sitting up or turning in bed, then her voice again, smooth, a little husky from sleep still, “That really doesn't sound like us.”

“We were waking up together and cuddling.” Her fingers drift along her collar like that of dream-Margaery. “You said I looked cute in my nightgown.”

“I bet you do look most adorable.”

She's never seen her in her nightgown. The two mornings, the only mornings they woke up next to each other, neither of them was wearing anything. In the month since, there hasn't been an opportunity for lazy mornings in bed. These early morning phone calls are a weak substitute.

Sansa grants herself another deep drag. With the menthol taste and smell enwrapping her it always feels a little, like she is with Margaery in that second. “I do,” she says in exhaling a puff of smoke into the dark of the morning. “If you want, I can leave it on beneath my dress when I come by later.”

Margaery sounds entirely amused by the prospect. “How daring.”

“I thought you would appreciate another layer to peel me out of.”

“I prefer you without any layers, my darling.”

“I know you do.” Sansa smiles as she snips some ash out the window. “I can't wait to see you later.”

That isn't an exaggeration. They only saw each other yesterday. They see each other every day. They talk on the phone every morning and every night. And yet it never feels like enough. It's almost like an addiction. More so. It's a physical need, like hunger, thirst, like the need to breath, where if she stopped for just a moment longer than necessary it would cause her physical harm.

[insertdragonpun]

SECOND POST

Can we talk about quirks?

What the fuck are they?

Are they a mutation?

An infection?

Were they internally caused or externally?

Or

The most fun option:

Were they caused by us absorbing different life forms like we did with the mitochondria? (there's your fun fact for the day)

It's such a fun brain exercise

Because it makes you ask what makes it possible for people to still be quirkless? Is it a recessive trait? A naturally high resistance?

What's the quirkless ratios in different regions? Is it higher or lower in cold climates? Is it because of the glaciers melting? Is it an ancient form of life that attached itself to the extinct fauna of ages past now, newly free and attaching to the nearest lifeforms that are similar to what the attached to back in the day billions of years ago?

Dammit.

Now I have to find a way to write the beginning of quirks into OIAL or a completely new fic, don't I?

Curse you creativity working best when I'm procrastinating

[jackinalex]

I find it kind of funny Alex won’t play OIAL it seems with Lisa present but he will kiss Jack on the mouth in front of her. All I want is to hear OIAL one time on piano that’s all I ask 😂 because it sounds so pretty

I stg!!! It was on the goddamned setlist. I think the reason they didn’t play it is bc they ran out of time (at least I’m sure that’s what they’d claim). Alex is so ridiculous. He’s like yeah I can’t sing this song I wrote about being separated from my wife, but I’ll kiss my male best friend in front of her and 10,000 people and also God. Like?????????

[20th-century-railroading]

OIAL

Conrail EMD SD40-2's 6382 & 6375 lift OIAL (Oak Island-Allentown) upgrade on the Lehigh line.

Neshanic, New Jersey July 1987

[halojalex]

Hi, I love your IG page! I noticed you posted a snippet of Jack and Alex playing OIAL acoustic, I remember watching it back when it came out but I can’t for the life of me find the whole video anywhere. Do you by any chance happen to have the whole thing?

imma be honest, i wasn't sure what video you were referring to at first 😭 i had to search for it in my camera roll and turns out i'd saved it over two years ago LMAO so i'm afraid i don't remember where it came from :( i did try looking on youtube but alas i couldn't find it ;-; sorry to disappoint!