#and I wanted to know where the hell my 401(k) was if it wasn't in my account

[lillatorg]

begging themselves they may betray

This one was a slog mostly due to the AO3 author curse and somewhat due to thinking I'd already written parts that I hadn't. And also because:

This is physical (?) in a way that I haven't written before. Usually my characters are running after/from evil bad guys or whatnot. They usually don't get around to staring deeply into each other's eyes until chapter 10. Now they're already in each other's arms and throwing smoldering glances.

This Porsche! I love him so much but I'm not sure anyone else does because he lies all the time. My favorite kind of lying, telling the truth but doing it in a way that makes someone believe the lie. Writing Porsche's lines, I realize how often I do this at work. But I think it is fine to be manipulative at work. Welcome to late-stage capitalism.

I installed the CSS to hide my author stats from myself. Every day I used to log in and look over the numbers and feel...good/bad/some kind of way about them. Now I don't. Mission accomplished. But it also means that I will take more time to write something if I feel like it, because I don't fear the loss of subscribers the way I used to. Hiding my author stats=good, taking more time to write something=probably less good.