Protect the flock! From JP and Hachette!
What are you doing right now?
Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.
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Permalink Reply by Megan (Fishy) on
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XD No, not really. This is why I fail so much at keeping an alter... I want to be me. And act like me, talk like myself, pick fights with people for things I disagree with, talk to you guys there, reference things from forever and a half ago....
*takes* Thank you.
EDIT - I just tried to log into my lurker-alter because lurking account-less feels naked, and I accidentally logged into this account....
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Permalink Reply by o0_flying high_0o on
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*understands* Well, kind of at least. And I'd prefer to have you back as you, which is why this site is so great, everyone's here and no one's pretending to be someone else to stop themselves from getting a ban.
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Permalink Reply by Xuut on
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-Offers cookies-
MX, don't touch it if it makes you sad or angry or something that isn't going, "Meh."
Not good for your health.
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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on
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Will someone get me an exorcism or something?
I just sat down and it was like... like... I accidentally five pages. Fucking bastards won't shut up.
As a bonus, though (even though I won't have this typed for a while yet) here is a very short excerpt that says a lot about this chapter:
"Ari's dad was back."
Also, that was way the fuck too much coffee for almost 23 :C
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You choose the best extracts...
Poor Ari, I don't know whether to be happy for him or not. I mean, last chapter I would've dragged Jeb down there myself, but I know how it turns out and...
Nevermind. *happy* Will no doubt be an enjoyable read nonetheless.
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I'm very much struggling with the strong compulsion to turn Jeb's part of this chapter into a giant flufffest with him just being all oh my God I am so sorry and generally just letting Ari know that his dad still loves him.
I'm fine with torturing Jeb a little bit, but denying Ari a happy ending (or even something of a bittersweet one) just feels wrong. He's just a little kid. I don't want to have to do this to him.
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I don't know what your other options are, but generally a fluffy reunion between father and son sounds good. Although, I can't picture Jeb as overly fluffy, more, 'What have I done? What have I let them do?' and as such more detached then he should be towards his son.
It is a... somewhat bittersweet ending. He gets family for a bit at least. But I know what you mean *hugs Ari* He is such a poor tormented soul, and one that really should be still coddled and cared for.
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The canon option is, well... you read SOF, right? There's a pretty fundamental, huge disconnect between father and son implied there. Either option is pretty painful for the both of them, though. (And yeah, flufffests with Jeb are never terribly fluffy, especially when it comes to his son.)
He... Ari is fucking five. What I want to do is just have a tearful reunion scene, and then just give Ari the chance to have a family with Jeb. But a lot of my cards point to a darker ending for him :C
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Yes, I have. Just a little family schism there. Although, you could have a fluffy reunion which later goes horribly wrong, which sounds like a great way to induce even more unnecessary pain x.x
I swear to God, someone needs to write that. I spent the whole of SOF wanting to scoop him off his feet and give him a proper childhood. *loves Ari*
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*wince* Yeah... although pretty much either way it goes this chapter ends in a very downbeat, depressing way for Jeb.
As much as I love him, for this... for this I just have to go "Motherfucker, you had this coming to you" :\
Since Ari actually started having lines, I'm just like... I don't think this fic has ever made me start sobbing (though I may have shed a tear or two at some other really sad bits in the beginning). This chapter might come close.
I'm in turmoil here about whether or not to just go "fuck you, canon!" and give Ari something like what he deserves. Really... I can pull it either way.
...Oh what the hell, I'll do the best of both. Fic gets one ending, and I'll do a oneshot with the other. :\ It's Christmas, for fuck's sake!
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This is just... horrible. For both of them.
Unfortunately, yes. But even if it's an incredibly hard and cruel lesson, at least he won't be making the same mistake with Elsa
*understands* Well, it makes me want to read it more.
Do both! I like the fact that RC fits in with canon, and could actually be considered a legitimate backstory, but I want to see Ari get his happy ending too.
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:C I'm just, like... I've killed off characters before and been totally fine, but this is just a never-ending carnival of pain and -- it's almost like a Greek tragedy, with all Jeb's past mistakes coming back to painfully bite him in the ass. And I have to write it.
Well, there's that... besides which, if Jeb tried to pull the same shit again with Elsa, I don't really doubt that Roland would at least attempt to murder him :|
This chapter is breakin' my heart, but... it's a good chapter anyway.
Yup, that's the plan now :3 Fitting RC into canon has played merry hell with some entertaining things I would've liked to try, but I think it's coming out to be worth it in the end.
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