#i'm really hoping i can finish this one before s6 starts...and i should be on track for that tbh

[coffeebanana]

Chapter 11: not-so-statistically speaking, at least one third of known sentipeople admit to enjoying sunsets. and playing with a cute girl's hair. and...

Ladybug swung through Adrien’s window. “I have an idea!” The idea in question was half-baked at best, but her excitement was in full swing—cleary, or she wouldn’t have nearly crashed into the foosball table upon landing. Eh, who was she kidding? That was just a normal day. Less normal was the way Adrien jumped straight out of his blanket when she whirled around to face the couch. And at that point she realized she’d skipped a few steps in Operation Cheer Up Adrien: Senti Edition. Namely the cheering him up part.

[basicallyjaywalker]

The final day!!!! Only about 4 hours left to vote! I'm on pins and needles about the results. I'll be (after I finish making them it's been a busy week) releasing the link to the playlist of the winner as well!!

Time to compile the current details

On Razed Ground/Never Quit:

-"Never Quit" is going to be the first part of the larger "On Razed Ground" series, which will be a collection of fics set in my Zombie AU, these facts should cover Never Quit exclusively

-It will follow the core six ninja from the start of the infection to a year in

-The ninja will still have their powers!

-Taking place right after S6/Jay's Final Wish

-Pure angst and terror and fear. my favorite :D

Quotes:

"How bad can a little stomach bug be?"

"You don't think this virus could become digital, do you?" "I hope not."

"Even the sun must set, so a new day can begin." "I'm worried the sun set too early."

Center Stage:

-Nya is gonna be a pink lady in Grease, Jasmine is a techie who quickly falls into bisexual panic

-Nataly and Lloyd are roommates. Is this plot relevant? Not really. Is it the funniest dynamic ever? Yeah.

-Will feature one of those stupid college parties in an abandoned lot you hear so much about, breeding grounds for drama

-Human/Non-Elemental world

-Everyone is a first or second year in university

-Just fluff and dramedy, very goofy and fun, two young adults try to have a romance when both have only dated one person before and one is just realizing she's bi

Quotes:

"My new roommate has been sizing me up like she wants to eat me."

"Being a woman in STEM is not a hobby."

"Well, how do you feel when you look at her?" "Like I've blown away a thousand dandelions and made the same wish every time."

Rook Can't Make Choices so Here's a Poll

In November I wanna work on another fic project alongside Selenelion, but I can't decide between these two options

I've never done a poll either so why not start here!

I'll start working on both because I plan to do both, but the question is which I want to focus on for the time being

Whoever wins at the end will be the focus!

Info about both fics current direction under the cut:

Zombies (ay ay ay)

Set in the same universe as my whumptober zombie au shorts, this would be a collection of short stories involving the ninja and how they make it through the zombie apocalypse

Would be VERY angst heavy and include major character death, alternating POVs between chapters.

Included would be: Skylor Chen being a certified badass, a lot of crying, ethical and moral quandries, blood and guts from the dead and undead, and a sense of dread I will never let up on

Sapphic College Love Story

Nya x Jasmine romcom where they're working on a play together!

I haven't done much for Jasmine but this would alternate between her's and Nya's POVs as one goes through sapphic panic and the other has a bisexual awakening

Included would be: Jay in a polycule less than half a year after they break up, Jay and Nya are besties, Pixal trying to help her two best friends actually talk to each other and needing to see Zane to treat the headache it gives her, and Nataly and Lloyd being a hilarious roommate pairing

[inmyarmswrappedin]

Idk if you've heard, but druck's dropped the ball on this season and they don't seem to have the tools to locate. Being that that is the case, would you still want an Ava season at the hands of these writers? Idek how likely an 8th season is bc ik that my own country would have scrapped druck mid-way through s6. I do wonder if Germany will keep on letting druck keep on?

Hi anon! 🎀 Let me answer your questions from last to first.

I'd say a s8 is all but guaranteed. Druck tends to get renewed 2 seasons at a time. It happened with s2-s3, and then s5-s6. The exception is s4, and really that was more so they could finish off the original run and get to the new seasons. There was a casting call for teens when s4 was still dropping, and I think they must've wanted to s5 to start dropping in fall 2019 because they introduced Zoe right away. (Hell, Zoe was introduced via chats during the Abiball special.) For whatever reason the new gen got delayed a year. Tl;dr: I'm pretty sure they've already guaranteed funding for s8, regardless of how s7 performs.

I more or less know what's going on with Druck. Truth be told, my impression is that they fixed none of the things I was hoping they'd fix (mostly having to do with episode runtimes, which tbf, is on the network rather than the writers or cast) and messed with things that weren't broken. I think the loss of Raquel as casting person is the one that's most acutely felt.

As for the writers: The head writer is Mareike Almedom. As far as I can tell, she's a white woman. Naomi Bechert is a black woman who was part of the social media team in s5-s6. Bahar Bektaş is a Kurdish refugee according to her website. Kai Kreuser is a white man. We know who Lukas is. And Crew United has also recently credited Arda Görkem (who played Abdi in s1-s4) as a writing intern. (An actual writing intern credited as such, not like the script coordinator that the wtf fandom framed.) Given that Arda is of Turkish descent, he might've had a hand in writing the Turkish parts of the script.

What I mean to say with this is that the writer's room isn't a lily white bunch. And none of the people who've worked on Druck before and can guide the others (Naomi, Lukas, Arda) are white. So... idk. I'm not sure that changing the writers again is necessarily going to make things better.

So would I want to see an Ava season with these writers? I mean... lol. First the argument was that Ava shouldn't get s7 because the viewers would abandon the show and Druck should choose a main that would bring in viewers, like Ismail! Have the numbers improved in s7, then? And if so, how much? Are we back to s5 numbers, to s4 numbers, to s3 numbers, to s2 numbers?

And what is the argument now? "No, Ava shouldn't get s8 because this writers' room would only ruin her character"? So, when does a character like Ava (a fat, dark-skinned black woman) get to be main on a Skam then?

For as much as people will complain if the writers fuck up an Ava season (which we'd have every right to), getting to be part of the Skams mains is still important. Take Kato's season. It's absolute trash, and it'd have been absolute trash even if Moyo had been main instead. But if Moyo had been main, then he'd have been the first black boy main, the first moc main across Skams (Bilal got that honor instead), the first wtf main of color, and only one of two mains of color for wtf. So, personally, I'd rather Ava gets that honor over it going to like, Mailin or even Finn or Yara.

Besides, even if they fuck it up, at least they will have had to put work into centering a narrative around Ava for ten weeks (assuming they don't switch povs like in Amira's season). If someone else gets to be main, then they won't have even tried.