#ywmc

[peaceoutofthepieces]

Hey, how are you doing? 🥰

I know you said in the past (or at least I think you did) that you aren't really motivated for vds anymore but still wanted to finish ywmc, I was just wondering if that's still the plan? I don't want to pressure you in any way with this ask, but yeah, just interested in how you feel about ywmc right now :)

i’m still not very motivated and i’m very low on inspiration for actual words to finish ywmc the way i always wanted to, but i do still want to. it’s more difficult when i haven’t got anyone to talk to about it (which is why writing is a lot more difficult in general for me now; i still get my own enjoyment out of it, but it’s hard to hold onto enthusiasm when i don’t actually know anyone who cares or is interested or wants to hear about it). but this ask inspired me to finally write the last hundred or so words i needed to post the next chapter — thank you for being here this long ❤️

#van der stoffels #vds #wtfock #skam nl #ywmc #asks

[pepethehobbit]

i think you are the only person who still reads ywmc and actually leaves comments about it and i honestly can’t thank you enough for it. i appreciate every single tag always. i am SO glad you liked the new chapter because i was still super unsure about it when i posted it but i pleased an og reader and that’s now all that matters <333

Ahh I'm really bad at answering this, I've deleted multiple attempts already haha

Okay here we go, so first of all, I really really love the way you write and it deserves all the recognition honestly! And I know how it felt when you left tags under something I wrote and if I can give that back I'll gladly do it!

Secondly, I find it super inspiring how you keep on writing even if its seems like to you that no one really reads it anymore (which is definitely not true, I reread fics of yours at least once a month), because as vain as it probably makes me sound is one of the reasons I stopped, so yeah don't know where I'm going with this, just that I'm glad you keep on going even for a rather diminished fandom, so thank you ❤️

#I honestly appreciate you so much for keeping up with ywmc #because my unmotivated ass could never #so I'm gonna repeat myself and say thank you once again ❤️

[hellomadhulove]

How difficult is life in Siachen glacier. Eggs & tomatoes turn into ston...

#https://youtu.be/ywmC-HDCkvk

[peaceoutofthepieces]

you were my crown

chapter 10

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Jens hadn’t been able to stop thinking about Lucas.

This was not exactly anything new, but the shift in the manner of his thoughts was what brought him concern. Wanting to take care of Lucas was nothing new. Even wanting to do so in the privacy of Jens’s room, to lock him away somewhere he’d be comfortable and protected, was not an unfamiliar feeling.

Wanting to hold on to Lucas, to keep him safe in the crook of his arms and the hollows of his heart, was a frighteningly new sensation.

Jens, as the prince, was used to being somewhat lonely. The royal family had subjects, comrades, allies. They didn’t have many friends. Jens had gotten lucky that Senne and he genuinely got along well. It was convenient that Moyo and Aaron were his and Robbe’s age and the children of nobles his mother trusted. Robbe himself was a borderline miracle, and he’d eventually brought Jens Sander, too. Jens was lucky, and he would never claim otherwise. He knew the gift he’d been handed in each of these relationships and he would fight tooth and nail to keep them all.

He clung onto all the people in his life with a tight grasp, but none of them compared to how desperately he desired to keep Lucas.

Keep reading on Ao3

#van der stoffels #vds #wtfock #skam nl #prince!jens au #vds royalty au #ywmc #4 chapters and an epilogue left! #next chapter will be a special vds-only one :)

[peaceoutofthepieces]

ywmc announcement!

i don’t think i’m going to continue ywmc. it’s something i started a long time ago with an interest i don’t have any longer and ideas that don’t sit the same with me anymore. at this point i’d be forcing myself to finish it and…i don’t have to. i haven’t even started the next chapter, so.

i’m very sorry to those of you who were still reading and waiting for updates and very grateful for all the encouragement and kindness you showed for it. i’m not going to delete the fic, so it’ll still be there for anyone who wants to read, but i will mark it as complete/discontinued. it ends with them in a happy place, which is where it was always going to end, so i hope that’s satisfying enough for those of you who wanted a full story.

sorry and thank you again <3

#van der stoffels #vds #ywmc #prince!jens au #mental health said no more #hope you understand <3

[peaceoutofthepieces]

here is the last bit I’ve written of the new chapter for anyone actually waiting:

“You—both of you—must think I have forgotten the terms of this agreement, or that I haven’t noticed how easily you ignore them. Where is your guard at the moment, hm?”

Jens went to speak through the panic clogging his throat, but Lucas beat him to it. “The ones posted outside the door are very aware that I’m here. They know who I am. All your guards do. Though I’m sure, in this case, they’re perfectly unnecessary. Both His Highness and yourself are more than capable of taking care of yourselves, in the case that I did pose a threat, but I would have hoped by now you have gained some assurance that I am not.”

“Why exactly would you think that?”

“Because I have had every opportunity to harm your son and I have not,” Lucas said plainly. Jens didn’t think that was the best argument, and his panic thickened by the second. Then Lucas looked over at him, and he realised something. Lucas may not have been waxing the best plea for himself, but he was being completely earnest. There was no hint of his usual snark or sarcasm, no glimpse of his steely defiance in his expression. In fact, it was open and warm—as if Lucas wasn’t thinking about crafting an argument for himself at all, but simply, for once, stating how he truly felt. “It may surprise myself as much as it would surprise you, but I have in fact come to the understanding that I would first take the opportunity to protect him from any harm, if I could.”

He might have been still speaking to Ellis, but he was still looking at Jens.

plus a hint of what is likely to be my favourite scene in the whole fic, which I haven’t actually written yet but have jotted some things down for:

“You deserve to have everything you want.”

#ywmc #van der stoffels #vds

[peaceoutofthepieces]

okay y’know what you can HAVE THIS:

“Maybe right now you don’t feel what you want to for Jana, but you can’t be sure you never will. There is love between you. Maybe if you let it, it would feel like enough.”

Jens looked at him, because Lucas wasn’t looking back, and he thought, maybe if I let it, this would feel like enough.

But it wasn’t. It never would be.

#!!!!! #van der stoffels #vds #ywmc

[peaceoutofthepieces]

I was literally laying in bed last light wondering about you were my crown and how I was going to ask you about it, and a chapter was posted today. So excited, thank you for continuing it even though I know it's not at the top of your list. I love it SO much!

ohh thank you!! it makes me so happy to think you were thinking of it and i hope you like the new chapter! it’s really not at the top of my list, but it’s still on the list haha. my love for vds will never fade all the way i don’t think :’) so i’m always always happy to receive any kind of asks about it — honestly i think it’d be very helpful in motivating the last few chapters haha

#❤️ #so grateful to you few unbelievably loyal readers #van der stoffels #ywmc

[peaceoutofthepieces]

ywmc soon? 😅

by friday!!! i will keep my word this time!!!! i’m going away for a week on satuday, so i’ll get it done before that, i am determined. pls feel free to annoy me about it this week and i WILL do it. the chapter is almost done already!!

#ywmc #asks

[peaceoutofthepieces]

4k into the new chapter now and making myself emotional lads. we’re doing things and going places. hold onto your hats

#it’s not even them i’m attached to at this point but the genuine burning passion i still feel for this story #it’s not their characters but this story’s characters #ya feel me? #van der stoffels #ywmc

[peaceoutofthepieces]

nooo i love ywmc i think about it all the time. i love everything you’ve done with it and i hope you carry on but i understand if u need to take ur time with it/away from it. so much love xxx

i’m really glad you do!!! and i really really appreciate the love I’ve gotten on it over so much time. i’ve just fallen a bit out of love with the whole thing, myself—i don’t feel very attached to the characters or anything anymore and i now find it hard to write about. i think also the fact i started it so long ago, a lot of the ideas i was excited about to begin with, i don’t even remember anymore! honestly it would be ideal to finish it all asap and then that’s it, cause i really don’t want to leave it undone, but i’m just…struggling to write more than a few lines at most whenever i open the doc haha. trying to figure it out. thinking the best option might be to make the rest of these chapters shorter? i dunno

#i don’t really have anyone to discuss it with anymore either #or any of my writing really #so yeah. low on inspo #ywmc #asks

[peaceoutofthepieces]

i’m not taking ywmc into 2023 so someone make me finish it 😭

#motivation has left ahaaa #we’re in the final third… #i just feel. stuck #van der stoffels #ywmc

[peaceoutofthepieces]

feel like prince jens should get to kiss his manservant before the end of pride month

#like #it seems only fair?? #🤷🏻‍♀️ #van der stoffels #ywmc

[peaceoutofthepieces]

I wish I could write proper words of encouragement but I never really know what to say in those situations that doesn't sound ungenuine or like empty words but I just wanted to say that I know the feeling! but honestly, the story is really sooo so good and I love every chapter that you write and the slow burn is amazing, I know this won't make you magically have more motivation to write but I thought I should let you know that there are probably more people than you think that would want to read what you still have left to tell, because even if it's ooc (what I don't really see that much, I feel like you kept and captured both of their core personality traits and simply enhanced them and it makes sense in the story that you're telling!) the story itself is interesting and intriguing enough that I would read it anyway.

I mean this is unnecessarily long and I don't know if I said anything of worth at all, as I said I'm not really good with expressing what I mean (especially in english) but yeah I just wanted to let you know that I get it I think

(sorry if this is really chaotic)

I’m only seeing this now ahh thank you so much 🥺 I always always look out for you reblogging my posts, you’re very encouraging!! it’s always really helpful to hear anyone is enjoying the story. and I also do think that, like ofc it’s not gonna be perfectly in character because they are technically different characters, because it’s a whole different time/world??? but it’s very comforting to know other people think that too!! and I always find a good royal story interesting, so I’m really glad you do just like the concept too 🥰 thank you so much for the encouragement—absolutely no s-word allowed!! I really really do appreciate it <3

#you’re the absolute sweetest #ywmc #asks

[peaceoutofthepieces]

yeah i totally get that but the fic is so good and i love it so much! so ill be excited if you do get inspiration for the next chapter :) x

thank you!!! I’m definitely working on it and I think it’ll be my fave chapter so far, so I hope you’ll find it worth the wait!

#i really appreciate all of you who are sticking around with it <3 #ywmc #asks

[peaceoutofthepieces]

you were my crown?? pls

working on it! I don’t have much time to myself these days and because ywmc is always long chapters, it takes longer. it’s also a more difficult fic because the more I write it, the more doubts I have about it, because I’m very aware it’s ooc and there are probably a hundred plot holes etc etc. it also doesn’t help that the fandom has basically dissipated and I myself have lost a lot of attachment to the skamverse in general, so I don’t feel as inspired or urgent about it as I once did. I don’t feel like I’m writing it for anyone else anymore, so I just write for it when I feel like it. I already have a couple thousand words of the next chapter, and I am going to finish it all out, but it will just take a while!

#ywmc #van der stoffels #asks #also whenever i actually post a chapter it feels like literally no one cares haha #i really just have to do it for myself at this point #which means i write it when i feel like it and write lots of other things when i feel like that!