#forgive me I've been hurricane prepping

[super-weed-ninja]

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Day 6: An Injustice

"He dropped to his knees, ignoring the muck as it mixed with the growing pool of blood and soaked into his kneepads.  Michelangelo knew already that it was too late.  Knew when the cries of the toddler stopped as suddenly as her mother had fallen to the cold concrete.  Still, he held his breath and reached his shaking hands over her little form where it lay draped over the woman.  As gentle as he could, he tilted her back into his arm, desperate to feel her breath. Barely a sliver of yellow light broke into the lane from the street, but from above, the nearly full moon reflected in her open and lifeless eyes.  He choked on a sob, holding back both tears and retching as despair tightened painfully in his chest. It wasn't fair.  He'd been right there."

From a one shot I wrote a bajillion years ago and never posted.

there's so many things I want to fix in this drawing now but I have to stop messing with it.

[clarkedyclarke]

i really love your blog, but i don't fully understand the context of "divorce au". it's cool if it's not something you want to tell me about, but i've followed you for about half a year and am curious. if you don't want to respond, it's fine, i'm just curious~

Hi there! Ok so first of all I’m really sorry this took so long to answer but 1) it was Spring Break and 2) I never thought in a million years I’d ever have to explain the finesse of divorce au to anyone and needed prep time. Please forgive me. But actually writing it all down like this is pretty helpful because people have been curious about this before and it’s better to just let it all hang out, haha

So to keep the horrendous, deep, dark secret of divorce au a horrendous, deep, dark secret, I won’t go into too many details.. but I’m pretty sure a cursory glance (warning: R18) of the tag can kind of help you figure out what sort of garbage to expect. Anyway: explanation time.

Divorce au started a year-and-a-half ago when @seonyein​ (colloquially known as sar) and I first started living in the same suite. It started as a fun little imagination station for sar and I in the vein of the many aus my general friend group tends to preoccupy ourselves starring one or more various kpop groups/artists/etc! Simple stuff like “what if family dynamics” or “what if everyone went to an arcade” and everything was fun for a while but then shit hit the fan because, quite frankly, the two of us are a disaster that ruins everything, like a hurricane in a denim jacket.

So what kind of started as a funny, completely innocent crackship-adjacent AU For The Soul turned into “Crackship A begets Crackship B, which begets Crackship B.5, which ultimately leads to Crackship AAA and now Crackship A is trying to get divorced” and by now the memes are too deep for me or sar to ever give this monster up, so post-marital limbo it is. I can’t even guarantee any of this is interesting or funny to anyone that hasn’t already been laughing at sexy pugs since like autumn 2015.

So without going into specifics, divorce au is an Alternate Universe containing the following important plot points:

- A happily married couple that actually maybe isn’t so happily married that started out as a light-hearted little adventure and quickly went sour- The Party Sluts (67% responsible for the age rating on divorce au tag. also. alcohol)- The Infinitely-Lacking Disappointment of a Husband Who Has No Idea How Much He Really Lacks. He Tries To Be Romantic But Accidentally Knocks Over a Ferris Wheel. He’s Actually Got a Lot Of Feelings But It’s More Inconvenient Than Endearing.- The Booty Call (responsible for the other 33% of the rating)- The malicious, shapeshifting lizard of questionable origin who sometimes isn’t even a lizard, definitely a demon- Lots of fluff moments because sar and i are weak to that and we miss the good old days- Real Dads vs Fake Dads vs New Dads vs Disappointment Dad- Giriboy is a chauffer on the weekends. This isn’t anywhere in any of the tags but it’s important you know this- You know when the goodie-two-shoes character who’s never taken any risks takes One Risk and that’s how they meet the loose-cannon miscreant character that changes their life for the better and shows them things they never thought they’d see and the miscreant character cleans up their life a little to be closer to the goodie-two-shoes character? Yeah that happens- Emotions that have been repressed to SUCH A DEGREE that things literally catch on fire whenever anything happens- Conspiracy Theorist toddler locked in a never-ending battle with Demon Lizard is an important part of the au i swear- Billy Ray Cyrus.- Everyone goes to jail at some point?? It’s fine (Mom Gets a Gun)

There’s a lot, lot, lot, lot more but it’s all mostly supernatural, terrible, and confusing without eight chapters of supporting texts spread thinly throughout twitter DMs, texts, the worst Google Doc you’ve never seen in your life, and forgotten 4.00am conversations. It’s the mutated, immortal, half-beaten horsechild of both Me and Sar that I love to death.

So tl;dr: what’s the divorce au tag even about?

Regret, mostly.