#but now as i reread godspeed i can see the heart of my writing has remained the same as ever

[quags1re]

Another completely unique anon! Godspeed truly is the fic of all time. I am currently half way through my like 50th re-read and I truly love the way everything is written. Especially Byleth & Jeralt, Byleth & Sothis, and Sothis & Jeralt.

u all are always so sweet to me

did u know ive never reread godspeed? this comment actually inspired me to do so. at least the last half of it anyway

thank u my anonymous friend. have a good day

[markantonys]

I'm giving myself a deadline to finally published that darn matmodean oneshot by the end of the month, even if I'm not happy with it (this ask serves as accountability for me, if it isn't on AO3 by 1.9.24 please everyone pelt me with rocks) - so I was looking at the snippets I wrote to see what can actually be edited and posted and isn't just bullet points and I sadly discovered that my favorite thing that I wrote isn't for the oneshot but for a longer AsmodeanLivesAU I don't think I mentioned, but I do want to describe it now because it got me excited again, sorry in advance this is long I hope you don't mind- this au has the same backstory of Mat&Asmodean hooking up in TSR and then Mat spending FoH jealous of both Rand and Asmodean. But Asmodean doesn't get killed at the end of FoH he just continues to chill by Rand's side, until in LoC Rand decides he needs to send Asmo somewhere else so that he won't get a chance to interact with Taim and the rest of the black tower. So Rand sends him to Mat and the band(bc the medallion protects Mat from the one power so it won't be too dangerous ). He tells Mat that Natael is a channeler but not that he is a forsaken, and that's enough to make Mat really dismayed. Rand doesn't know they hooked up so he doesn't realize how much this reveal affects Mat (<-this is the one scene from the au that I did write). I am pretty sure I planned for only Mat to learn that and not everyone, so the band&Aviendha&etc still think the gleeman is Rand's boytoy pillow friend, joining them for some reason. So basically Asmodean is with them on the way to Salidar, which in my plans included: the spider-man-pointing meme with Moghedien when they recognize each other, perhaps some gleeman vs. gleeman show?, Asmodean accidentally developing actual feelings for Mat and being jealous when Aran'gar dances with Mat (maybe Asmo trying to protect Mat?), Aviendha filling in the rest of the girls on the situation from her perspective, moggy spilling the beans about Asmo to the girls which leads to misunderstandings with Mat bc he doesn't know that I will need to reread the books some day to remember what other ideas I had, I probably wanted to plan a redemption arc for Asmodean. I also haven't read book 7+ so I never had a full plan, and unfortunately that's not going to happen anytime soon

the triumphant return of the Matmodean Anon!! thrilled to hear that you're working on a oneshot for it, godspeed and i look forward to reading it once it's ready to post! we will gather up our rocks in preparation but hopefully it won't come to that haha (also Felt, sometimes you just need the kick in the pants that public accountability for finishing a fic provides!)

and oooh, this Asmodean Lives AU is so intriguing, and also chock full of drama, mess, and miscommunication shenanigans. all the things any good AU needs! i'm cryingggg imagining the asmodean & moghedien spiderman pointing meme in this scenario djkjfg and then moghedien can't even make fun of asmodean being obsessed with mat seeing as she's obsessed with nynaeve, poor moggy. and thom would absolutely feel threatened by some other man showing up claiming to be rand's gleeman and would challenge him to a gleeman faceoff! and the scenario of the girls knowing "natael" is a forsaken and assuming mat knows too while mat in fact has no clue what's going on is a delight to picture. even if you never end up reading enough of the books to write this AU in full, it will live on in our hearts!