Life with Dirk and Jane - And Friends!

So Married with Grubs. I know some hardy folks have been waiting for the conclusion of it all for a very long time, and I’ve honestly run out of excuses (beyond “my collaborator is no longer in the Homestuck fandom and is too busy to try and collab on this anymore” and “real life is the pits”). Do I still intend to finish it all? Yes. Yes I do. Will it take a long time? Yes. Yes it will.

I would just like to express my deepest appreciation for all of you who have read any of my Sherlockbound stuff and enjoyed it, especially those of you who let me know you enjoyed it! On my worst mental health days I go back and reread all the nice comments, it’s really something that’s kept me going.

Hey, guys. :) To summarize what is going on:

My collaborator Sam lost the original “Seb and Gus: Do Something Stupid” document when she switched laptops, but she’s hard at work rewriting it and should have it finished within a couple of weeks. Then I will be working on filling in the gaps, stringing it together with more plot, and editing. I hope to have it for your viewing pleasure no later than early May, depending on what life throws our way.

After that, there are a couple more shorter ficlets, and the Married with Grubs event will FINALLY, FINALLY be over. Barring any questions y’all might have, of course. Just as a teaser sort of thing, there might be some more information about the mechanics of the universe in store for you (this is a post-game AU in all technicality; you will soon find out what happens beyond that fifth wall I keep telling y’all not to poke).

And then I will begin much more earnest work on Dirk and Jane: Hound of the Sassacres. :3

{Sometime soon...

{Hey guys!

So I have pretty much failed to deliver on my promise to have the final BIG drabble out in a timely manner, but it's not my fault or my collaborator's fault; due to extenuating circumstances, the laptop she had what she wrote on it is missing, either in a box from her move or in a box at her parents' house, and we have both been craaazy busy this summer and unable to talk much about anything, much less something so far down on our priority list as finishing Married with Grubs.

Rest assured, we will still finish it, but I think I will be doing it alone this time; my collaborator will provide the outline, but the meat of it is mine, since my schedule, overall, has a lot more leeway than hers. Also, this thing started out as my brainbaby and I began it, so I will finish it.

I have one month until I go back for my final semester of school. I want to be able to say that I will have it for you soon, since it's been pretty much a year since we started this thing. It'll just depend, guys.

But I haven't forgotten this blog and I promise that as soon as I can, there will be content.

Also, for the anon who asked about parental memories between Mother's and Father's Day: I am so sorry I missed the mark, but I will still answer your question soon.

Sorry for all the delays. I hope y'all will stick with me to the end here.

Life with Dirk and Jane - And Friends! turned 1 June 7!

{Wow, look at that! This blog is one year old, guys! Thanks for making Life with Dirk and Jane everything it is with your support, everybody; I really couldn't do it without y'all backing me up. Thanks for being the best readership a gal could ever ask for!

{Hello, lovies! Quilly here!

As most of y'all have no doubt noticed, the blog has been pretty inactive lately; between final exams, moving back home, jobhunting, and eventual job acquiring, I've been busy, busy, busy these past few weeks! Also, my co-conspirator and co-writer for the next drabble has been busy with work and moving into a new apartment, so BLEGH no time for the fun stuff lately.

However, before our summer is through, I am going to make a guarantee, which I often hesitate to do because once you do THINGS happen, but: before I head back to school in September, the Married with Grubs event will be winding down to a close. Maybe not completely done yet, depending on the question inflow, but all the drabbles posted and the big important life events squared away. I am going to promise this with the hope I don't make a fool of myself, as is so often my way.

So here we are, darlings, on the cusp of the end, and hopefully I'll get to some of the questions still sitting in the inbox here soon (or maybe just the one, I think...). Hang in there!

ANGEL: swimming

ANGEL: gotta keep my scholarship up

ANGEL: also trying to think about what i want to do with my life

ANGEL: obvious thing is to learn how to run a multi-million-dollar company but i dunno

ANGEL: despite the whole dance studio thing that was always more gus' cup of tea

ANGEL: once mom retires which may very well be never ever gus is gonna take over

ANGEL: or at least put people in charge who know what theyre really doing

ANGEL: idk what that means for me

ANGEL: ive been talking to aunt porrim about options lately

ANGEL: and uncle kankri but he talks too much and hes with his partners a lot anyway

ANGEL: i just...i dunno

ANGEL: swimming has been my life for so long

ANGEL: but i dont know how to make a career path out of that

ANGEL: still working on my general ed studies but at some point im gonna have to settle on something

ANGEL: bennet is working on his bakery and dale is making a big splash in the fashion world

ANGEL: im just me

UU: hello, dear!

UU: oh, lately, i have been trying to relax back with my friends.

UU: they're all empty nesters now, you know!

UU: and besides, with relative peace in my domain, i can afford to sit on the porch and drink some of jane's lemonade.

UU: aah, truly the life, indeed!

GG: Calliope, lunch is ready!

UU: coming, darling!

UU: and of course, i needed to be here to check in on roxy

UU: i fear i've left my old friend alone for far too long.

GUS: I'm alright. I teach at a dance studio now, which is pretty great!

GUS: I miss Seb like crazy, buuut...it kind of helps to have a kismesis to take some of my aggression out on.

DAKOTA: hey yeah that's me

DAKOTA: im the kismesis

GUS: Don't sound so self-satisfied, I only picked you because your brother wasn't available for hot makeouts.

DAKOTA: okay sweetheart, whatever you say

DAKOTA: though ive kinda gotta say it, you know it squicks me out when you talk about django like that

DAKOTA: not cool at all

GUS: That's unfortunate, because Django is HOT.

DAKOTA: stop

GUS: I mean, he's so sculpted and built and--

DAKOTA: alright my shirt is coming off

DAKOTA: you see this? THIS is sculpted and built

DAKOTA: my dear brother is a noodle. i am 100% pure troll beefcake

GUS: --and he DOESN'T feel the need to overcompensate just because he gets teased.

DAKOTA: this isnt teasing. this is aggravated torture.

DAKOTA: i demand satisfaction

GUS: So do I, but you don't see me complaining about it.

DAKOTA:

DAKOTA: that was below the belt harley

GUS: You know what isn't?

DAKOTA: no.

DAKOTA: you are not making another joke about my equipage in public.

GUS: What about in private?

DAKOTA: we can discuss it. thoroughly.

DAKOTA: now.

GUS: Maybe later, cowboy, I'm not interested.

DAKOTA: i am shirtless and practically begging for it. you won't get an opportunity like this again for a while.

DAKOTA: now either stop riling me up like youre a sadistic little kid and im a wind-up toy or make good on your threats

GUS:

GUS: Alright, sunny jim, you wanna go, we'll go.

DAKOTA: only if you'll wear the boots

GUS: I hate the boots.

DAKOTA: and i hate you. wear the boots.

GUS: Fine.

GUS: But I'm bringing the paint.

JASPER: I'm better than I have been. :)

JASPER: Part of that is I'm keeping busy.

JASPER: Classes, jobs, just busy, busy, busy.

JASPER:

JASPER: If you're looking for me to spill my guts--

GUS: Might help you feel better.

JASPER: Don't you already have a moirail, Harley?

GUS: Can you blame me if I'm a little attention-starved in that department?

GUS: But that's not why I'm here. I just think you need to actually open up and talk to somebody.

GUS: We haven't seen you around in a while.

GUS: We miss you, too.

JASPER: Why would you even miss me?

GUS: Because you're family. In this case, my actual sorta-blood family.

GUS: Come on.

GUS: She's been gone almost--almost a year.

GUS: Let it out.

JASPER:

JASPER:

JASPER: I'm angry.

JASPER: With her for leaving, with myself for letting her go and pushing the issue in the first place.

JASPER: I knew she wasn't comfortable with me bringing up how she didn't have a job and was bouncing between my place and Gus' apartment and her parents' house, but I brought it up anyway.

JASPER: And I'm not even all that sure I regret doing that, because it's a conversation we needed to have, just--

JASPER: I thought--for so many years, I was--

JASPER:

JASPER: I wanted to marry her one day.

JASPER: I still want to, but she hasn't talked to any of us in months and I...I just CAN'T deal with her right now.

JASPER: I hope she's happy and safe wherever she is, and I hope she finds whatever it is she's looking for.

JASPER: I just wish moving on from her wasn't so hard.

GUS: It's gonna take some time; you were basically together for, like, twelve years or something.

JASPER: Yeah. Twelve years.

JASPER: I miss her.

JASPER: I miss her so much.

GUS: I know, Jasper.