I know you’ve been working on lots of sanders sides stuff, so of course no pressure, but I am big fan of the inexact sciences and I was wondering if there’ll be an update any time soon? No pressure at all, just wanted to let you know that I’m still interested :D
Hope everything is going well for you and dude it’s so crazy that welcome to hell is 10 yrs old???
Hey there!
First of all, thank you for letting me know you’re still interested. I was kinda thinking everybody forgot about that little piece of mine since it hasn’t updated in forever!
Truth be told, I was supposed to finish it in 2020, but… yeah.
But I haven’t stopped working on it! I’m currently writing the final two chapters, and I’m happy to say the second to last is almost complete! I’ve even got extra motivation now given how people are using AI to complete unfinished fics (as incredibly fucked up and selfish as that is), so you should see something soon, especially since I have a LOT of free time for the moment, and since I want to move on to different projects (I’m planning a super secret project with my boyfriend that I’m really excited about, and I have fic and an original novel I want to write, as well).
TLDR: Yeah! I have like, two more sections to write on the second to last chapter, and I would like to finish the book by the end of this year! (To anyone who reads Life’s a Drag, this pertains to that fic also!)
Also, YEAH, it’s fucking WILD that W2H is 10 years old. Especially given I’ve been a fan of it for about 8 of those 😳 I feel elderly.
Thank you so much for the ask, love! I’m doing okay (after not being okay for a while, which makes being okay now a lot sweeter to me 😊), and I hope you are, too 😘
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wip wednesday! i am returned from the pits of lung ick and doom.
this is for @purplesigebert and @trueromantic1, but idk if this is remotely what you had in mind. it veered off to angstville a teensy bit along the way. it's also klaus/caroline/stefan in its soul, but stefan's hella dead. so.
it's sort of a sanctuary/the librarians/warehouse 13 theme fusion in which caroline is a research librarian in a sentient, extradimensional library. no magic babies. klaus still went to new orleans and got all grabby hands over it. the entire cast of tvd, minus caroline, died at the end of season 5 when the other side collapsed and took mystic falls with it.
He was silent on the stairs as they descended and remained that way as she lead him through the rabbit's warren of echoing hallways lined with closed, barred doors, part of the Library's natural defense system.
At the first checkpoint, she finally broke. “What do you want, Klaus? You did not donate enough to get an all-access pass just for a tour of the Bodleian from me. You don't need a tour of the Bodleian. You probably helped build the Bodleian.”
“I like the hair," he ignored her question. "The glasses. Very clever. Makes you look older. Authoritative.”
“And don't start with the flirting." She pulled her flexible ID chip in its retractable holder with more snap than necessary and held it out to the reader. A row of tiny lights turned green and the door unlocked with a muffled click. She opened the door and felt the distant brush of the Library greeting her, soothing despite its natural inclination to grumpiness and her own Original-induced temper. "I haven't just made myself look older. I'm seventy-four. I have more degrees than anyone can fit at the end of my name and a gaggle of grad students waiting for me. I have a warlock's extensive estate scheduled to begin arriving from Cumbria this afternoon," she opened the door, ushering Klaus through, "in distressingly soggy condition, because he was well over two hundred years old and absentminded about preservation."
He trailed after her at an easier pace than her own, forcing her to slow down if she didn't want to leave him behind. “That sounds like an interesting challenge.”
“Are you making small talk? What the hell, Klaus.”
"I—" he tilted his head toward her, as though to hear her better, but his arms were perfectly still at his sides, hands wooden, “—yes. I am attempting to draw you into conversation about your work."
Caroline once had to remove a dead witch from the Bodleian proper during Trinity reading week in nearly an hour of awkwardly harrowing Weekend at Bernie's reenactment. At one point, she'd had to hurl the body behind a display case to help a first year in crisis over a missing source article that had, nevertheless, been referenced in four subsequent sources. She'd still never been so relieved to see the last checkpoint before the entrance to the Library as she was with Klaus at her side.
She placed her hand in the center of the door's intricately carved medallion and waited for it to acknowledge her. The Library skimmed over Caroline's being, lazy from decades of connection and more than comfortable with her presence. It was less gentle with Klaus, if his sudden, pained breath was any indication, but the door warmed under her touch, a golden glow spreading molten into the runic array, seeping out to the edges until the door shimmered away to nothing, leaving the entrance of a circular, brass cage.
"Interesting," he murmured, discomfort brushed aside by fascination. She'd always enjoyed that about him. It had never been the promises and the gifts and the flattery that made her wish he hadn't been otherwise impossible. His curiosity, the variety of interests and depth of knowledge, had been like no-one she'd ever known. She remembered every conversation she'd ever had with him, a claim that couldn't be shared with anyone else she'd known briefly nearly a century prior.
She stepped into the cage and beckoned him with a hand to her left side. "Coming?"
"What is this, exactly?" he questioned, even though he did as she'd indicated.
"A lift," she answered and swung the curved gate around, completing the circle, "of sorts. Or so we refer to it. It's really a gateway, but people get a little nervous when you start talking about dimensional travel."
Any further questioning was cut off when the brass cage sparked with the same light as the door had, spreading until its occupants were engulfed. Caroline breathed through the lurching tremble of distortion and the squeezing yank in every direction, the terrifying weightlessness of momentarily ceasing to exist in time or space.
When reality reasserted itself, Klaus was crouched, one hand on the ground, gasping. Caroline stood primly, hands clasped in front of her.
"Welcome to the Library," she stated, impassive as any bored tour guide. "The Bodleian entrance was created during World War II, the result of a casual agreement between adversaries to avoid destroying key universities."
Klaus gritted out her name as he stood, unsteady and even paler than typical, veins darkening around his eyes.
Caroline ignored him, staring straight ahead. "I've learned things, gone places, met people even your millennium couldn't have shown you." She unfolded her hand to gesture around in a smooth, practiced motion to the rotunda's warm brass and red-toned wood structure, its mercurial filigree detailing and shifting aurora of the dome above. "Don't make the mistake of thinking I'm still that little girl you tried to tempt away into the woods."
That barb was one that clawed into him. "It was not like that." He looked away from her, eyes darting around the room without truly seeing, in an attempt to control his temper. "Don't make it sound so tawdry." Caroline slowly turned her entire body to stare at him, unimpressed. He shut his eyes for a moment, longer than a blink, but not long enough to give the impression that she wasn't his entire focus. He made a small, beseeching move towards her, and his eyes were as intense as they'd always been, begging some question she’d never known the answer to. "That afternoon was the happiest I can remember being."
When she laughed, it was an ugly sound. "Good for you. If you'll follow me, I'm afraid you'll have to endure a morning of dull administrative tasks. You are, of course, welcome to leave at any time."
“I'm sorry, Caroline!” he called out after her. He sounded strained and desperate. She halted, lungs seizing and abdomen clenching. “I'm sorry they died.”
Every day. She missed them every day. She missed Bonnie's tenacity. Her quiet grace. Elena's wild, foolish bravery and deep well of compassion. She missed Matt's honesty. His so human morality. Enzo and his halfway-to-crazy attempts to help her grow up, whose death broke her heart far more than she would have expected. She missed her mom's steady practicality. Those moments of kindness bridging the gap between them that never quite went away. Her father, Tyler. They hadn't been very good at loving her in the end, but they had loved her. That’s what she remembered.
She even missed Damon. Sometimes. A little bit. Maybe.
“I'm sorry Stefan died,” he continued, and that one hurt.
Stefan. Stefan. Stefan of the gentle touches and soft, encouraging words. The late-night-early-morning whispers to each other in her bed, forehead to forehead, cuddled up as close as two people could be. Who preferred being the little spoon and understood how afraid she was to love him, because he was just as afraid to love her back. After all, they knew the people they loved would always, always leave them.
Her best friend. Her almost lover. She took care of him, even when he thought she shouldn't. He protected her, even when it was from himself.
Last one standing was a dog shit bonfire of a title to hold.
And he was sorry.
“Don't talk about Stefan.” She walked away from him. Her heels sounded like bullets as they struck the floor. “You don't have the right.”
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My suspicion is that the only reason working out would be less strongly tied to groundedness in women is because we already have a stronger intrinsic connection to the physical due to the nature of our bodies
Well, (and correct me if I’ve misunderstood you) but I don’t think the guys are discovering something physical through their workouts, I think they’re discovering something spiritual.
For example, as a woman, when I read Nancy Pearcey’s Love Thy Body, which described the hylomorphic state to me for the first time, it upended my whole worldview, and to this day I’m still discovering straggling scraps of materialism or Gnosticism in the chinks of my worldview. Moreover, that knowledge helped me to consider my body as me, rather than something I have, or something I live in, or as I was often wont to do, an adversary. (Fittingly, I am now being tested by the dysfunction of my gallbladder.) I feel like I was never truly connected to the physical until I read that book. Not just with regard to my body, but also the world around me, and the relationships I’m in. And certainly focused physical activity strengthens that sense of unity between physical and metaphysical and reaffirms that the metaphysical is in fact, real.
I suppose the question in my mind is: If I can come to knowledge of the physical via spiritual discipline, can someone else come to knowledge of the spiritual via physical discipline? And is this a channel more accessible to men than to women, perhaps because their bodies do change so much faster and more drastically with physical activity than women’s do? etc. etc.
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Sometimes fic inspires me, and I just want dark, depressing fic.
Like. I don't even know what version of canon. IDW? Prime? Probably more Prime? I'd say it's almost like SG?
Anyway. Orion Pax becomes Prime, and unfortunately, even if he once had noble intentions, he ends up as corrupt as the other Primes. Perhaps there's a rot in the Matrix. Perhaps bots just can't be trusted with that sort of power.
He does have a bodyguard who is always one step behind him, as quiet and still as a statue. He is, however, quite recognizable. It's Megatron, former Champion of the Pits.
This Megatron, however, if he ever protested against the corruption in government, he doesn't anymore.
Instead, he serves the mech he loves, whom he gave his spark to, who kisses him in private but ignores him in public.
A low-caste labourer, even one as famous as Megatron, can never be allowed to sully the Prime.
When he's alone, when Optimus dismisses him, he sometimes raises a servo to his chestplate and thinks about the small, flickering spark orbiting his own.
Would Optimus acknowledge their sparkling? Send it away so as not to tarnish his image? Once Megatron was certain he knew the answer, but times have changed. They have changed.
But hope is the last thing that dies in a mech.
So a continuity blend, okay okay
Ohhhoh now this? This could go in so many interesting directions based on what you use it for
I have two answers to this
Answer one: the unique scenario
So I exactly imagined the shattered glass designs (or at least Megatron's shattered glass design), and a blend of the backstories for SG, TFP, and IDW.
Maybe more heavily Aligned leaning on Optimus's backstory and his connection with Megs, more IDW leaning when it comes to the worldbuilding of the setting itself (because I feel like adding the IDW flavor of the Senate, Functionists, and all the nasties going on in the background would be interesting), aaaand pretty split down the middle of SG/TFP/MTMTE when it comes to Megatron himself because I've thought way so much about blending the backstory we see for him in mtmte with the one we know he has in aligned.... But also because I mostly imagined his shattered glass design here.
Answer two: the answer based on a pre-existing fic
Remember this? I do!
My second thought upon seeing the word bodyguard was "wait like in [The path less travelled by was paved with good intentions]?"
Let's just say your ask sounded to me like a possible future event along that "bad timeline" where Megs didn't step away.
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