#i'm not posting bc i think anyone has answers i'm just like. supremely frustrated

[loverboy-havocboy]

ramblings about the formatting of the aliit rewrite and like.. moral dilemmas of co-writer divorce 

i would really prefer to create a new series to post the altered aliit au works and leave the originals the way they are. i don’t like the idea of erasing work people like from ao3. i don’t like the idea of massively changing work someone else contributed to without their involvement and without providing access to the original. 

during the split, exco said i could include work she did on unposted wips with co-creator credit, so part of me thinks? theoretically? maybe i could create a duplicate/updated series and credit her on the parts if it that include her original work? but that would add a bunch more works to her ao3 profile that she has no say in the direction of anymore, which also doesn’t feel right? 

the only way i can think to add chapters in the middle of these fics (which will be necessary in the rewrite) is to paste the new chapter over an existing one and move each next chapter one spot over, if that makes sense. but that will mean that my exco is co-creator on chapters i wrote alone and i don’t really like that. 

i don’t know. it seems so unnecessarily complicated and i would like to just ask her what she wants me to do so both of us can feel good about the end result, but she has me blocked. which is her right, obviously, but now it seems like no matter what i choose to do, i’m going to have to do something with her work without her permission because i cannot obtain it. 

i’m not willing to abandon the series, either. she wanted to which, again, is her right, but i have more of their story to tell and control over the series was handed over to me. so????