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I was tagged by @goldieknocks, @fanthings, and @softforklave Thanks you guys!

Rules: share your most recent line from your WIP (any WIP) and tag the same amount of people as there are words.

Well, okay, so. My fondness for sentence fragments makes my most recent tua wip sentences not very illuminating at all. But since that’s three people tagging me and I have three fanfic wips I am going to share them all. Unfortunately, the interesting one is not tua at all I’m sorryyy

It’s a question of degrees. <-  from There’s Going to Be Some Changes

(No he wouldn’t.) <- from Everybody Loves a Vacation

It turns out that years of wishing you could talk to your dead mom doesn’t do much to prep you when that conversation actually comes around. <- from a gotg fic that I last updated in uhhh 2017 but I have for some reason come back around to writing and anyway this is possibly a big spoiler except, as I’ve said, this is from 2017 so there is no way that anyone knows and/or cares

I’m going to pick the first one for how many people to tag because I actually know 5 people! make the rules work for you

@wireless-telegraph @totallynotremus @cowgaykermit @intricatecakes and @courtneytarynofficial if you want to, of course! no pressure. and anyone who wants to share and tag me, that would be neat, I love seeing what people are doing! <3

#tag games #wip stuff #yeah babey I'm finishing my gotg fic apparently #it's a Weird Time #if it makes things any more interesting?? (it doesn't) but if it does #the tgtbsc one is a Five pov #I literally have #probably two chapters of tgtbsc and I just.. haven't posted them #I think my theory is that it's better to build up some content first?? but I do not know if that is accurate #I have multiple chapters for gotg too but I am not posting until that is DONE I won't revive something from the year 2017 #only to let it lapse again it must be complete #anywayyyy I'm gonna add more sentences tonight babey this will be outdated as of tonight and that's a rock fact!! #I mean probably not elav but #tgtbsc #elav #i don't have a gotg fic tag because I literally never posted about it before I would bet

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There’s Going to be Some Changes -  T | 26k+ | 7/? | The Umbrella Academy

The first thing that Five does, as the white-blue light fades from Allison’s vision, is to growl, “Don’t fuck everything up.” The second thing he does is pass out. They’ve got figure out where they are, and when they are. Figure out how to stop the end of the world. It took Five, who’s basically a genius, if a bratty one, over forty years, and that wasn’t long enough. Now the rest of them are on the clock, and Five is unconscious. It’s time for ‘The Hargreeves Try to Save The World,’ take three.

aka, an alternate s2 story that picks up right where s1 ends, plotted out when all I knew was that they'd be in 1963.

Chapter Seven!! Feat. Klaus getting to be real nostalgic and not enjoying a second of it.

#tua #tua fic #TGtbSC #Klaus Hargreeves #has a real unpleasant time in this one I have to warn ya #but it's fine he'll be fine #as fine as he ever is

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@intricatecakes tagged me for ‘nine sentence Sunday’ and it’s not Sunday and this isn’t nine sentences, but neither was HERS so it’s fine

It’s from the next chapter of There’s Going to be Some Changes (aka There’s Going to be An Update - but when? I literally can not tell you)

“You wouldn’t,” Vanya says flatly. “You wouldn’t change anything?” Because, what, Allison’s life is just too perfect to even dream of changing? Because she thinks she’s never made a mistake? Vanya can think of a few. “I would have thought at least you’d get rid of Patrick; he sounds like such an asshole.”

Last time Vanya had said something like that, Allison had ripped her apart. Last time, neither of them knew how strongly Vanya could defend herself.

Allison laughs, which is not at all like last time. “He totally is, you’re right about that.” Then she shakes her head and says, “He would hate that you think that. He would be on the phone with his publicist already. He can’t stand when people don’t love him.”

Tagging anyone who wants to share a snippet of their wip! mmmmaybe @anglophile-rin?? I feel like a lot of my writing buds are burnt out at the moment, I don’t want to pressure anybody.. But seriously, anyone who wants an excuse to share something, this is your excuse.

#I was gonna share a bit from the Klaus pov because that's what I was working on most recently #but that's basically just nine(ish) sentences of suicidal ideation and that's. not super fun. #only fun in very particular way #thanks v much cakes for the tag!! you are like your namesake very sweet #tua #tgtbsc #tua fic #I feel like I have a writing tag probably but I forget it whoops #yay sisters

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There’s Going to be Some Changes -  T | 9k+ | 3/? | The Umbrella Academy

The first thing that Five does, as the white-blue light fades from Allison’s vision, is to growl, “Don’t fuck everything up.” The second thing he does is pass out. They’ve got figure out where they are, and when they are. Figure out how to stop the end of the world. It took Five, who’s basically a genius, if a bratty one, over forty years, and that wasn’t long enough. Now the rest of them are on the clock, and Five is unconscious. It’s time for ‘The Hargreeves Try to Save The World,’ take three.

aka, what happens after s1 ends, which is already clearly not where the show is going, but! it’ll be a good canon-divergent time.

Chapter Three is up! Featuring some time in a 1968. Then, Klaus adopts the fetal position, and Vanya picks a team.

#tua fic #TGtbSC #tua #thanks once again to the folks who are commenting and reblogging and chatting with me about this!! #I'm having a lot of fun with it and I'm sooo excited to share it with you guys #I just have to Write More Faster and Better #but your kind words really do inspire me to want to do that so #<3<3<3 #next chapter is Allison and Luther and Ben but you didn't hear it from me

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There’s Going to be Some Changes -  T | 2k+ | 1/? | The Umbrella Academy

The first thing that Five does, as the white-blue light fades from Allison’s vision, is to growl, “Don’t fuck everything up.” The second thing he does is pass out. They’ve got figure out where they are, and when they are. Figure out how to stop the end of the world. It took Five, who’s basically a genius, if a bratty one, over forty years, and that wasn’t long enough. Now the rest of them are on the clock, and Five is unconscious. It’s time for ‘The Hargreeves Try to Save The World,’ take three.

aka, what happens after s1 ends, which is already clearly not where the show is going, but! it'll be a good canon-divergent time.

I’ve been calling this my 1963 fic, and I guess it’s sort of an alternate s2. This is a true ensemble piece - all the sibs are in it, and all of them get to be the pov character at some point. It’s going to end up long and it’s still a wip but I just got so excited to post it!

#the promo pics and people talking about how if it's the 60s maybe Dave'll be there and I just!!! #I've been thinking about that for sooo long and it's what got me started writing this fic! so I had to share #tua fic #tua #umbrella academy fic #s2 spec fic #TGtbSC #I changed the title I'll have to go back and retag the posts about this #anyway I'm planning to put chapter two up later this week but I can NOT promise a reliable schedule sorry #this chapter is just one scene #a little teaser #from Dave's pov as he meets the WEIRDEST guy I wonder who that could be....

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There’s Going to be Some Changes -  T | 32k+ | 8/? | The Umbrella Academy

The first thing that Five does, as the white-blue light fades from Allison’s vision, is to growl, “Don’t fuck everything up.” The second thing he does is pass out. They’ve got figure out where they are, and when they are. Figure out how to stop the end of the world. It took Five, who’s basically a genius, if a bratty one, over forty years, and that wasn’t long enough. Now the rest of them are on the clock, and Five is unconscious. It’s time for ‘The Hargreeves Try to Save The World,’ take three.

aka, an alternate s2 story that picks up right where s1 ends, plotted out when all I knew was that they’d be in 1963.

Chapter 8 is out!! (finallyyyy) Feat. Five being grumpy, Luther being lonely, and Dave valiantly trying (and failing) to just give up already.

#tua #tua fic #TGtbSC #basically Five and Luther are being uhhh exactly themselves. base state Five and Luther #and that's true for Dave too tbh he's just SOOOO CONFUSED about EVERYTHING #anywayyyy yeah this is finally done and at least it's a long chapter if that helps anything

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There’s Going to be Some Changes -  T | 18k+ | 5/? | The Umbrella Academy

The first thing that Five does, as the white-blue light fades from Allison’s vision, is to growl, “Don’t fuck everything up.” The second thing he does is pass out. They’ve got figure out where they are, and when they are. Figure out how to stop the end of the world. It took Five, who’s basically a genius, if a bratty one, over forty years, and that wasn’t long enough. Now the rest of them are on the clock, and Five is unconscious. It’s time for ‘The Hargreeves Try to Save The World,’ take three.

aka, what happens after s1 ends, which is already clearly not where the show is going, but! it’ll be a good canon-divergent time.

Hello have a chapter 5! but I’m afraid chapter 6 might,, take a while

Feat. Diego regretting the choices that have led him to this moment, then Dave polishes some already polished glassware. 

#Dave is Looking Busy while he Looks At a person of interest #TGtbSC #tua fic #tua #frankly yeah I have not been producing anything creatively in the past little bit so I really cannot even begin to pretend #that I know when the next chapter will be up #but I think the ending of the chapter will be enough to keep people wanting to come back??

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It is a Very Good Drawing.

(and a visual aid, for chapter 2 of TGtbSC aka There’s Going to be Some Changes, aka my 1963 fic)

#posting this now so that I can put a link to it in the chapter basically #I don't know if this helps or makes it worse honestly #tgtbsc

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((ANYWAY not that I’m saying anything but There’s Going to be Some Changes was completely plotted out by March 10 so if there ARE any similarities between it and things that happen in s2.. ))

((it’s just because I am so smart I guess))

#the amount of things that I have but to the left #jesus #not as spot on as sunrise of course calling the end twist #but you know. not bad. #TGtbSC #tua

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Oh my god as always Heidi, you are much too ridiculously sweet 🤗🤗💜💜

Okay so I’m not sure if you’ve read this one or not, but I think that you’ll like hearing about this anyway SO. The beginning of Chapter Four of my current wip, There’s Going to be Some Changes.

The first scene is one with Allison spending time with Claire, and people have said it is very cute, and they are right, but what is important to keep in mind here is that it’s entirely based on my very excellent nieces. The scene is that they are walking to the park to see pink flowers, but they stop when they come across some construction workers and Claire lets them know that they are supposed to hold hands in the street.

The thing with the construction workers really did happen with my eldest niece. The workers were really cool and sweet about getting a lecture from a 3 year old. She did at the time pronounce their job title as “destruction workers,” but I thought that might be too confusing for the fic. But it meant you would drive around town and hear, “Oh look at that destruction!”

Also in this scene, Claire calls these flowers ‘daffodaisies’ and that’s because that’s what my three year old nice deemed the flowers that we saw in the park together. They called me up at some point when I was working on the scene and I told them what I was writing about, and the same niece wanted to make sure the flowers were pink, and so there you go, there was a hunt for pink daffodaisies in that scene.

I almost changed the name of the flowers, because right before I posted, my mom received some correspondence from my eldest niece, who had drawn a picture of flowers that she captioned “pink-a-blooms.” My mom’s letter asked where she could get some of those amazing flowers for her own garden, and the reply in full read: “You can’t. Why not? They don’t igsist.”

#the moral of the story is that I don’t come up with cute things to write about #my nieces provide all of that content for me #there are FOUR of them and they are constantly doing and saying amazing things #thanks for being a dear and indulging me #you are always doing that when I post these sorts of things and it’s very sweet of you!!! <3<3 #fic ask games #asked and answered #TGtbSC #intricatecakes

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There’s Going to be Some Changes -  T | 13k+ | 4/? | The Umbrella Academy

The first thing that Five does, as the white-blue light fades from Allison’s vision, is to growl, “Don’t fuck everything up.” The second thing he does is pass out. They’ve got figure out where they are, and when they are. Figure out how to stop the end of the world. It took Five, who’s basically a genius, if a bratty one, over forty years, and that wasn’t long enough. Now the rest of them are on the clock, and Five is unconscious. It’s time for ‘The Hargreeves Try to Save The World,’ take three.

aka, what happens after s1 ends, which is already clearly not where the show is going, but! it’ll be a good canon-divergent time.

Finally got my brain in gear and posted Chapter 4 because THAT TRAILER HUH???

Feat. memories of Claire. Then, Luther doesn’t like his pancakes, and Ben is, as usual, a lot less corporeal than he’d like.

#tua fic #TGtbSC #tua #y'all ready to complete the sibling set and hear from Diego next chapter?? #ohhh realizing I may have to add a character to the tags soon.... #ANYWAY don't even try to tell me that Claire is unrealistically cute with the construction worker stuff because that is based on real life #my niece is unrealistically cute but it hasn't stopped her

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There’s Going to be Some Changes -  T | 22k+ | 6/? | The Umbrella Academy

The first thing that Five does, as the white-blue light fades from Allison’s vision, is to growl, “Don’t fuck everything up.” The second thing he does is pass out. They’ve got figure out where they are, and when they are. Figure out how to stop the end of the world. It took Five, who’s basically a genius, if a bratty one, over forty years, and that wasn’t long enough. Now the rest of them are on the clock, and Five is unconscious. It’s time for ‘The Hargreeves Try to Save The World,’ take three.

aka, what happens after s1 ends, which is already clearly not where the show is going, but! it’ll be a good canon-divergent time.

Chapter Six is up! and I know no one is going to read it for a while, but it’s there, okay? Slipping in so close under the wire that it actually doesn’t really count.

Feat. Allison’s turn for regret(s, she’s had a few), then Dave pointedly doesn’t  think some things, and in a 1968, Klaus is a smidge overwhelmed.

#tua #tua fic #TGtbSC #sometimes you update fic the night before a new season because it's not like you can think about anything ellse #although hmm sorry this doesn't really put you in a better spot re: cliffhangers than chapter 5 #although again it's not like anyone is going to be reading this and on the edge of their seat over it after... whatever happens tomorrow #!!!!!!!!!! #I'm just going to go drink a bunch of wine now and wait

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🎉🎉Happy Anniversary to me!! 🎉🎉A year ago today, I posted my fic tua fic, which started off a really productive creative year, and helped me make a bunch of super amazing friends. I wanted to post a new fic today in celebration, but I just don’t have anything ready for that yet (it was a really productive year, by which I mean 5 fics. I am quite a slow writer).

BUT I thought I could still share a bit from a multichapter fic I am currently working on - my stab at a prospective season 2 fic, that I’ve been referring to as the 1963 fic because it takes place then, after they hop back in time at the end of season 1.

Hopefully I can get it written before an actual season 2 comes along and makes the whole thing moot, but for now, here’s a piece from the first chapter, wherein 23-year-old Dave is working as a rookie bartender when two weird looking guys come into the bar late at night. One is covered in knives and the other is wearing dog tags and his big green eyes are looking at Dave like he really does think that this drink will change his life...

It flows off his tongue so easily. Calling this other man ‘dear.’ It makes Dave notice how the collar of the shirt underneath Klaus’ vest swoops so low, so revealing. His loose posture, the thick dark lines bringing out his eyes. The spark shining in those eyes when they slip slowly from the whiskey swirling in his glass up to meet Dave’s gaze.

Dave flushes. Suddenly his palms are sweaty and his mouth is dry. He grabs a towel to wipe down the already clean counter, needing it more as a prop than anything else.

Klaus takes another sip. He takes an expectant inhale, but hesitates, just blows the air out in a sigh. The Penguins are doing a poor job of filling up the otherwise empty bar.

A good bartender is a good listener, can team up with the alcohol to get a heavy story out of a burdened man and send him on his way lighter than before. But Dave hasn’t even been here for four whole months. He’s not that good.

Klaus picks up the slack. “Nice fellow like you, probably you’ve got a girlfriend.”

Dave nods. “Annie.”

Klaus nods too, like he was expecting this. “But you’re planning to propose to her soon.”

Yes. Dave doesn’t know how something like that can be obvious to an outside observer. There’s no rings, no actual proposals have happened yet. But it’s true, what Klaus is saying.

“That’s what you do when the girl you took to prom stays with your sorry ass for this long, right?” he says.

Klaus looks thoughtful. “You’ve really got to be sure that it’s the right thing to do, when you do that.” His gaze cuts to Dave, much more piercing and clear-eyed than he’s used to seeing in this place.

No one could accuse Dave of not devoting enough thought to popping this particular question. Most of his classmates didn’t wait near as long as this to get married, actually. A couple of the guys from marching band are fathers already.

Annie is nice. She’s lovely. She’s got a beautiful singing voice, and she’s kind to everyone. Kind enough to go to prom with Dave, and to stay waiting for him for this long. There’s being a gentleman, and then there’s whatever Dave is doing.

What he’s doing is nothing. He’s pretty sure he doesn’t deserve the credit he gets for being ‘such a respectful young man,’ since it’s not like he is responsibly overcoming his baser desires. He just hasn’t felt like that about Annie. Not yet. So he hasn’t proposed yet, either.

He knows he’s supposed to - he’s known that, for a while, but it’s been weighing on his mind even more lately. Since his dad’s accident. Life is short, and his mom could really use some good news now, and Annie is nice, and somewhere buried in all of that must be the reason why it’s the right thing to do.

He really is the worst bartender. This conversation is all turned around. He tries to get things back on track. Be conventional. “Do you have a girlfriend, then?” His voice comes out sounding odd, for some reason Dave can’t place.

He’d be shocked if this guy was single. Not with a smile like that.

“No, I’m - ” Klaus’ voice is strangled and strange, too. “I was close with someone. But he - we couldn’t make it work.” He’s looking at Dave like he’s wishing for an answer, but it’s not even a question. Then he blinks the suspended moment away, and grumbles off to his side, “I get that.”

Dave didn’t miss the pronoun. He shouldn’t focus on it, Klaus was quick to correct it. But he can’t stop hearing it. There’s only the three of them in whole bar, but something about the close weight of the air makes it seem like they are enclosed in the same small space.

“She made me want to be a better person,” Diego says into his empty glass, “because she was just a good person. Now I’ll never see her again.”

Klaus smiles wryly. “You never know, it’s 1963. Depends how long you stay alive.”

#it really has been such a wonderful year for me you guys #I know that's wild to say now in the midst of early 2020 #but on a personal and creative level it's just been. really really good. #I'm probably still coasting on feel-good fumes from the feedback fest and the idea that there are people who like my writing!! #tbnt #<- working title acronym #I also do have a bthb oneshot half-finished but then I started feeling weird about writing pure angst for some reason??? #so I haven't forgotten about those requests I'm just. being weird and I haven't fully figured out how come yet. #so I hope people will like this anyway! #I'm midway through writing chapter 3 right now and at about 7.5k #I'm not sure how far ahead I'll need to be before I start posting but it's time travel-y so it feels like it'd be best #to be very settled into it all because the need for changes/edits seems high #ANYWAY #thank you for being lovely supportive people! it's meant a lot to me <3 #I hope I can keep giving back with stories that you like! #tgtbsc

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The last chapter of TGtbSC fucked me up in the best way possible, thank you so much!❤️❤️ I am in absolute shambles

aaahhh thank you!! It was a bit of an intense one. One of the notes I left for myself when I was writing the first draft was “I would like more of Klaus being terrified” because shambles is what I was going for this time around! The next chapter starts off with Five and Diego, so that’ll be more fun bickering, less pain and torture. Something to look forward to!

#💜💜💜 #thanks as always for being so supportive it means the world #tgtbsc #asked and answered #i mean not that it was a question just a very very kind and lovely message #yeah the scene that opens chap. 8 is called in my doc: #Five POV being grumpy (shocker) #so hopefully you'll enjoy that being more lighthearted! #well mostly it's lighthearted #well there's some angst in there too #ehh but it's not torture!! and that is apparently my bar #royedsasoei

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For the wip game thing! Maybe 'Honey'? And if that's too specific, how about 'love'?

‘Honey’ is such a specific word! Specific enough that it’s not in any of my wips right now. I’ve got some love for you, though.

(I don’t think @sunriseseance will mind about me sharing from something we are co-writing? But let me know if you don’t want me to!) Been calling it the road trip fic:

He hates to move, but he would love to see. He needs to see.

And you kind of hit the jackpot on what I’ve been thinking of as my 1963 fic! I’ll give you the whole paragraph, because three out of four of the sentences have the word ‘love’ in them.

This bright new togetherness, whatever it’s called, is not even a month old yet, so it’s entirely too soon for declarations of love. But Sam Cooke is crooning out from Kreb’s radio just inside, singing about how he’s given away his heart to the person he loves, and it’s sappy and  beautiful and nostalgic and true. Klaus loves Dave. It’s too soon to say it out loud, but it’s not too soon to know that it’s right.

#wip ask game! #anon is a sweetheart #thanks for asking this was super fun to do! #yeah okay they are both Klaus and Dave scenes what did you expect #the snippet from the 1963 fic is actually a flashforeback that takes place in 1968 #and I'm sure that won't be confusing at all #also the working title is there in the snippet #thanks Miel for pointing that one out #tbnt #Anonymous #tgtbsc

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Babe! I am so warmed in this isolation that my prompt excited you so much and that we’re so on the same page about this idea! It was like a gave you a little wave and you responded with a big hug ☺️ Take your time and write it for YOU though, I’ll read anything you write (i HAVE read everything you’ve written). Love, truth serum bingo card anon

LISTEN we are now very good friends, it’s been decided! I am also quite warmed by your wave!! I can make no promises because my creativity is a fickle beast BUT I’m kind of stuck and unsure about the next scene for this longer project so maybe I’ll do a truth serum palate cleanser..

For now I can share a little bit of the longer thing I’m working on?? It’s set in 1963, the story basically picking up where s1 ends. Sort of my stab at a s2 adventure, I guess. It starts like this:

“I’ve heard you make a mean whiskey sour.”

Dave hasn’t been working at this bar for very long, so he’s not sure how anyone could have ‘heard about’ his mixed drinks. He’s also pretty sure he’s not very good at it; he’s only had a few months of experience. But sure, he can make a passable whiskey sour.

He wishes it was more than passable when he turns to slide the drink across the bar and makes eye contact with the guy. Big green eyes, long dark lashes. Looking at Dave like he really does think this drink will change his life.

#if you've read everything I've written YOU KNOW that I can't stop thinking about the Klaus and Dave of it all #and I posit that neither can Klaus #if they did end up in 1963 #anon is a sweetheart #not sure of a title yet but I'll use a tag for what I'm leaning towards with it... #tbnt #Anonymous #((and also like if you want to be friends and chat you super can shoot a direct message I love making friends!!)) #tgtbsc