#ddads renaissance

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GOOD NEWS

Oooh la, I’ve been holding off on posting this, because I have made you promises and broken them before, but I ~*FINALLY*~ had the breakthrough I needed on this one bit in the final chapter of Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood that has been the holdup for literal years, and, guys, it’s really actually happening.

I am currently turning shitty first-draft words into less-shitty later-draft words, but the bones are good (and also 85% of it is done and ready to roll out) and I am so hyped to finally put the capstone on this. SOSH is on hold; Beautiful Day has the wheel right now.

I’ll also be clearing out some of the old drafts of ddads posts and meta that I never got around to posting before, so this is once again going to be a ddads blog for a while.

(And then the hookup AU. Oh my god I can’t wait to post the hookup AU. It’s so goooooood, 50k words of high-energy porn-with-feelings.)

Anyway. 😀

Apologies to people who are here for my witcher shit not my gay dads shit, but these guys have been waiting much longer for it. I am not actually leaving or changing fandoms, I am (at long last) honoring my commitments from a previous fandom. I promise it’ll go back to your regularly-scheduled witcher programming before too long -- in the mean time I’ll be tagging these posts with “ddads renaissance” if you want to blacklist it.

(Or you can join the fun!!)

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One of my beta readers was summarizing Gene to her spouse and described him as “a weird little gremlin,” and friends, I have never felt more Seen. 😌

Because most of the fic is filtered through Robert’s POV -- bless his unreliable-narrator heart -- and he thinks of Gene as the normie one.

So it is very gratifying to hear that Gene’s true nature came through despite Robert’s bias clouding reader perceptions of him.