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Heyy skuppo I like your fanfic a lot and I’ve noticed u haven’t been online at all, u okay? I’m not trying to be pushy for a new chapter, sorry if it comes off that way. I was just wondering if your were alr?

Hi hello! It's very kind that you're reaching out here like this! 💖 It made me happy to see when I noticed, which admittedly took awhile (I'm so sorry!), because I have been very disconnected from everything lately!

This is kinda rambly so I'll give it a cut!

I am doing ALL RIGHT (right now, anyway, because before, I was doing TERRIBLY AHHHH like seriously some of the worst months of my life there for a bunch of stupid and also personally catastrophic reasons). I don't really want to get into all that because it's a huge bummer and it all REALLY SUCKED and I don't want to trauma dump! I'm sure I'll get into it a bit on my next author's note! BUT FEAR NOT, I'm not one of those people who gets upset even if people are like, "YO WHERE'S YOUR FIC" even if that was your intention -- long as it's respectful! It actually makes me more happy than anything to hear people still care about my story when I go into social hibernation mode 😭 selfishly my story means the world to me, so anytime anyone likes it, I'm like, yesssssss, my life is validated!

And on THAT front, I'm done with a chapter! I'm gonna do one quick and final pass-over edit and then it'll get posted tomorrow, either before or after work! (It's currently 11:00ish pm here in CST land, so expect it somewhere between like, idk, 8:30 AM and... 5? tomorrow??) Gonna take some brief time to ramble here because WHY NOT and also I AM ANXIOUS and gotta word vomit to STOP IT (it won't actually stop any of the anxiety BUT I CAN TRY) and am I really myself if I am not taking a short, sweet comment and using it to BLAB FOR DAYS???: it's not as long as my last couple of chapters because those 20k+ behemoths were exhausting as fuck to edit and really killed my drive to write. This is more my old style of 10-14k sorta chapters, and the one AFTER it is also actually written, too, it just needs a lot more editing. And then there's a TON of stuff after it I've also written too. In my long sabbatical, I basically let myself write scenes from parts of my fic as I was inspired to write them and not necessarily chronologically! This kinda resulted in me having TONS of shit written but nothing I could post, but it was also all I could really emotionally manage at the time. Between that and letting myself go back to smaller chapter sizes, I'm hoping it means I can go back to posting with a lot more regularity -- like, idk, once every week or two. I kept falling into this DUMB TRAP where I'd get anxious about a long portion of the story being more introspective/emotion-exploring than plot advancing and think, well, I have to hold on until I get some introspection AND some plot advancing moments, and that meant I'd end up with some INSANELY LONG CHAPTERS and editing those things made me really wanna walk directly into oncoming traffic. They were especially torture when I was NOT doing so hot on the brainmeat front, which is... OFTEN. Like who isn't emotionally and mentally a mess these days, the world is a DISASTER Anyway, long story short, I'm going to stop holding myself to arbitrary goals and allow myself to sometimes publish a chapter that's more about some horror-drenched domestic nightmare-fluff even if it doesn't have anything SUPER plot advancey at the moment because it's what makes me happy! AND HEY, character development is plot advancement too! (THAT'S WHAT I'M TELLING MYSELF ANYWAY AHHHH)

(In actuality I feel like I'm constantly terrified I'm letting the 20 people who consistently read my stuff down, but I gotta like, try really really hard to NOT think about that, HNNGH.)

I really think it'll be better for everyone tho. I'm more motivated to write when things don't take me a month and a half, because when it takes me a month and a half to write ONE CHAPTER I want to take a 7 year sabbatical not only from writing, but from life. I don't tend to get near as exhausted churning through smaller chapters though! Also, I hope you're reading on Ao3 and NOT FF.net cause I probably won't be posting there immediately! This chapter gets more overtly sexual than previous ones and I know FF.net isn't down for that so I gotta... find some way to edit it so it's not as heinous? Which is like HALF THE POINT OF THE CHAPTER, so I'm concerned! 🫠 Not that FF.net has any moderation anymore, but y'know, just in case! PS - for the anon who sent me the ask asking when the fic was getting updated sometime in mid January, the answer is: TOMORROW! <3

[skuppo]

Hiya, just wanted to tell you that your latest chapter was amazing. Your fic is really the only work that has kept me involved for so long. The way you write Dabi and insight into his fucked up mind is so captivating I love it! I always look forward to your chapters no matter how long it’s been. Your writing is appreciated and I just wanted you to know that. :)

Ahhh, thanks so much anon!! 😭😭 This is the second time I've posted after a real long break, and especially this time I admittedly was kinda worried like, now that the series is over (mostly? NEVER FOR ME THO MAN, MY HYPERFIXATION BEEN HERE FOR AN EMBARASSINGLY LONG TIME AND I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING ANYWHERE, so thank you, Dabi 🤡) and I've been AWOL for seventeen slutty, slutty years, is anyone actually gonna be around to read my stuff anymore? IS THERE ANY POINT TO THIS TOIL AND HARDSHIP? WHY AM I STILL HERE? JUST TO SUFFER?

But hearing from even a few people makes me feel like, yes. YES!! This is ALL WORTH IT! Motivation is BACK, baby! My crops are watered, I'm moisturized, I'm READY, and it's time to sit around for an ungodly amount of hours churning out my hellish ideas into a similarly hellish reality!

So for real, thank you!! 💖💖 Every little note and comment helps prod my ADHD ass into action!

I'm also really, really happy to hear you like my, uh, rendition? Of our gooodest boy! Our most delightfully terrible of scumbags! ❤️‍🔥 I know I write him as absolutely monstrous, but I can't lie, I love that rotten bastard so much. 🥹🥹💖 I've always really loved the concept of extremely nasty and manipulative characters in love, and when I stumbled into Dabi, I was like, oh maaaaan. This is it. This guy is a gaping black hole of need-to-be-loved. He would be so SCARY if he caught feelings for someone. He would do LITERALLY ANYTHING, morality be damned! Imagine!!

Anyway, it's super exciting for me, so I'm glad it's exciting for you too! Love to spread the fun (and fucked-uppedly sexy???) horror around!

As an aside for anyone else reading this (all 1 or 2 of you??) I mentioned earlier on Tumblr (and maybe on Ao3?? I have forgotten!!) I was hoping to have the next chapter out by Tuesday (yesterday) or today, but I think it'll probably be closer to Friday or on the weekend! I was like, I just have one or two more scenes to write, so it should be quick!! but in typically-me fashion, those two scenes have been getting HELLA long because it was an important bit and I just cannot help myself from vomiting out little expositional side things in the middle of Dabi giving Suzume a real life uh… semi-example??? of the shit she's been learning about recently. 😌 But I absolutely am still churning away, plugging in some real time even after some really long days at work! I have not gone anywhere! SHIT IS HAPPENING, WOOHOO!

BUT FOR REAL, THANKS AGAIN FOR DROPPIN BY BBY!! This made my day! 💖🎵🫡

THANKS FOR DROPPIN BY BBY!! This made my day! 💖🎵🫡</p>

[skuppo]

hi hi!! i’m not sure if this is THE skuppo from AO3 but this is me shooting my shot anyways 😮‍💨

BUT my question to you: is hawks gonna start catching feels for suzu?!?!

i think i saw a previous comment that you made a few chapter ago saying that he might??? but idk!! i can’t remember 😭 that would absolutely drive dabi BALLSTIC (i can’t wait to see him implode with jealousy LOL) and i honestly love hawks so much that i hope this is the case 🥸 because to me, hawks and dabi are literally the same people but different fonts LMFAOOOO

orrrrr bakugo or todoroki start catching feelings for her?!?! she’s literally their age!! (and a lot of us are speculating that she might attend UA 👀)

ahhh okok i’m sorry for asking so many questions 😭 i know you don’t want to spoil anything but i love hearing your rants and miss you!!! ok byeeee 🩷

IT IS ME! Hi, hello! 👋👋💖💖 ON TO THE (SORT OF SPOILERY BUT PROLLY WAY MORE BLUE-BALLSY) ANSERRRRR:

(Man tho, imagine if it wasn't me, and there were just two people named Skuppo out and about losing their respective shits over the Dabbster and somehow we had not met or did not know about each other! Glad to see AU-Tumblrverse!me still has good taste… the good taste being just liking Dabi LOL 😌)

ALSO LOL 😭😭 THESE QUESTIONS ARE SO SPOILERIFIC AHHH 😭 I feel like I'm already really prone to spoiling a lot in my comments, though LORD KNOWS I TRY TO KEEP SOME AIR OF MYSTERY GOING ON, but I just get so dumb kinds of excited to talk about my silly headcanons for my story!

WHICH I AM HAVING THAT ISSUE NOWWWWW. I don't wanna spoil anything, BUUUUT, I will give a hint: having grown up playing a lot of dating sims/games with dating sim elements, I've always been partial to the LOVE ASTERISK, which is something my best friend and I jokingly came up with (tho I'm sure someone else invented it before us!) Imagine the typical love triangle, where two people like one person, or sometimes it's like a chain… or whatever…

Soooooo, by contrast a love asterisk is like, all the different parts of the asterisk come and meet in the middle because EVERYONE likes the person in the middle to some degree or another! I've always loved stories like that! 🤡

Not that I'm gonna get… TOO out of hand… I hope!! I guess that's really subjective! 😭💀 BUT, hopefully that helps answer your question at least a little vaguely!

A lot of people have made some very correct guesses on things, though! (Also Hawks is absolutely like the third most important character to the story, so he has a loooot of weight to him. And, I mentioned this in my comments, so it's fair to mention now: Bakugou does show back up! I did NOT mention this in my comments, but I will ALSO say this: Shouto does, too!

AAAAAND, aside from the love asterisk thing, I ALSO LOVE VERY JEALOUS POSSESSIVE LUNATICS. Which is how I'm writing Dabi, LOL. Bro gonna be losing his miiiiiind 😭 he deserves it (and worse) but I also love him, so I feel bad for him… but what is writing if not to make all our faves sufferrrrrrrr 😌

Thanks for hitting me up, though! Getting tumblr asks is kind of exciting LOL 🥹🥹👹💖

[skuppo]

helloooo!!! I just caught up with reading your amazingly written god tier fic The Violence of Existing and then read all the comments and your replies (I personally love your rants/babbles/comments ESP ALL THE FUNNY SILLY GIFS U REPLY WITH HAHA) and then stalked your bookmarks on ao3 LOL. So then I came here to your tumblr and I just wanted to ask if you have any fav ficS of your own!? It’s totally ok if you don’t reply but TVoE is def now on my top fics and I was just so curious which stories are your top favs!!? Or stories youre perhaps keeping up with, as I am with your story (hoping that makes sense) Hehe I haven’t completely looked through ur tumblr so if you alr have answered just disregard this!!

HIHI, hello! I'm so sorry this is such a late response! I have not been SUPER active on Tumblr and I've really only talked to like, one person on here who came from my writing endeavors (who I quickly hustled over to Discord, because she was cool and awesome and I was excited to be her friend!) so I wasn't super paying attention and/or expecting anything like this so, AHHHH HIIIII! 💖💖💖

Your question totally makes sense and I'm flattered you'd be interested in my tastes! (ALSO THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE KIND COMMENTS TOO!)

I must confess that I do not read a WHOLE lotta fanfiction; the stories that I do read, I tend to read like, over and over and over again, because I am very much a gross little creature of comfort, and most of those are on my bookmarks list already! I also tend to usually prefer one shots to long form fic because I'm usually jumping into something for a particular kink! 🫠🫠 There were a few long boys I was reading for awhile, but their authors have admitted to giving up on them or have been AWOL for like, well over a year. ): I don't have a lot of time to read long form stuff on the reg, sadly, and when I do, I try to make room for nerdy sci-fi and fantasy books because I am -- unsurprisingly -- a heug nerd!

But I will clean up my AO3 rec list over the weekend and let you know in an AN when I get around to it! I'm hoping to post the next chapter soonish! (Gods willing... 🙏🙏)

[skuppo]

As always the new chapter was beyond amazing. He is becoming more and more sick and filthy by the chapter and I LOVE it. I’m always so excited when I see you updated, I always stay up no matter how late to read it all.

Ahhh, thanks so much anon!! 💖😭 I was initially very anxious about how his progression from Scum to Plus Ultra Scum was gonna ramp up and how people would take it, so knowing you're excited for it helps me feel a lot more confident pushing forward! I'm so glad you're here for the ride! (Just don't ruin your sleep schedule too much!)

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Give u my fanart

Oh hey!! 😭😭💖✨ thanks so much! It’s my babies! 💖 I love how you made Suzu look so melancholic, she definitely suffers from The Big Anxiety! Seeing this made my day! 🫂 If it’s cool with you, I’ll throw it at the end of the next chapter in the author’s note with credit! (No pressure obviously!)