FortuneShySpirit

Oops, forgot to put up an official post for today's update. But These Inhibitors' Flaws has been updated!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48611803/chapters/232515181

On another note, probably no update this weekend. Sorry. And, as I already said, gonna be on holiday next week. I should be back to updates the week after but I'll let you know.

I still haven't responded to the questions, I know, sorry. Been busy and had a rough few days. Nothing too bad just emotional for no reason over everything. I'll get to them later tonight hopefully.

All going well, I'm gonna try and get the second chapter of Me, You, Here edited and up tomorrow. It quite long though, longer than I intended, so failing that, I'll try These Inhibitors Flaws instead.

Also, I have a few questions to respond to on here but I'm gonna be busy tonight. I'll try and answer them later, if not it'll probably be tomorrow. But I have seen them, I promise. I'm not ignore them.

I am also starting to run low on banked chapters and I have a holiday coming up, so I might have to stop updates for a few days to try and do some catch up if that's ok. I like having a bigger backlog than I currently do - I blame the birthday story for that. And the heat. And starting another chapter of Drifter instead of what I was supposed to be working on. I am now writing These Inhibitors Flaws but I both want to write ten different things and nothing at the moment. This heat has melted my brain and made thinking difficult. I'm hoping to do some real writing soon now that the temperature is seeming to be going down a touch.

I'll keep you posted but will be at least taking a week off starting on the 6th July. I might even have to only have one update next week as well to keep my backlog decent enough so I don't fall too behind. I will be updating something Wednesday and will let you know then what I decide.

EDIT: Me, You, Here has been updated!

My new oneshot, Happy Birthday Rodent, is up now on AO3!

I've just decided to add more to the birthday story. A few days before it has to be up. And I'm not sure if I've just ruined it. I liked what I had as the end before but didn't think it was enough. But now I'm wondering if keeping everything a little open-ended like it was before is a better idea. I'm not sure. I think I'll just have to see what you guys think in a few days.

I suppose I could make it two chapters or something so you guys can see where the old cut-off point used to be? Maybe that won't ruin what it was before but I can still add the rest? I'm just not sure now.

EDIT: I just added almost 3,000 words to the story today. It is now officially longer than Just A Normal Day.

Hopefully. Like I said last time, gonna be a day early so I can try and work on the birthday story. Except I've chosen to upload not only a new oneshot but also a longer-than-chapter length one that I have not yet edited. Joy. I hate my brain sometimes. It's gonna be a fucking mistake but we'll see how editing goes. If it's too much, I'll have to pick something else. I'll let you know if I change my mind.

For now though, it's gonna be the oneshot that's an offshoot of Drifter, which I'm also in the middle of writing at the moment by the way. Started chapter four and got about 2,000 words done.

Anyway, the oneshot links up with Amy's chapter (Never Seen Him Quite This Frazzled). It's called First Concert. It's a bit all over the place and from Sonic's perspective this time. A bit disjointed. Further back in the past. Also, weirdly enough, I chose not to specify songs for this one. We'll see how that goes. This story is one of several reasons I couldn't fit Drifter into the universe of These Inhibitors' Flaws. Trust me, I originally wanted to do that. But this one has set itself apart much more since then, so it no longer fits.

Might have to put up a few content warnings though even though I'm really bad at those. Despite the title, it ended up a little darker than I had originally intended. The story kinda got away from me a little with this one. I like it but... it is a bit much for what it is. So, warning in advance: themes of violence, death, and I guess racism and inequality? Don't even ask; I don't know how I got here either.

Sorry for the ramble-y post today. In one of those weird moods where I can't quite focus on what I'm supposed to be doing. Mind keeps drifting (ha) and I'm very irritable for some reason. Every little thing is just...

Anyway. Update tomorrow. Should be First Concert. Content warnings. I'll let you know if it's something else. That's all I really needed to say, jeez.

Been a bit ill but I still managed to get Running on Steam's chapter finished, so that should be updated tomorrow. Forgot it was Wednesday tomorrow, been so thrown off with my usual routine being interrupted and being ill and I don't know where I am. But I do have an update ready to go, just needs an edit.

Meanwhile, I've been slowly working on the second chapter of Me, You, Here. That's probably most of the way done now. It's gotten longer than I anticipated, still will be shorter than the first though I believe. Gonna try and get that finished soon too.

Help Me... Please! should be getting an update tomorrow!

It is Sunday tomorrow, right? I'm all over the place at the moment because of stress and I don't know where I am, ha. I'm working on catching up with updates but it's slow going with everything I have going on at the moment. Running on Steam is about a third of the way done but I haven't really been able to work on it for three days. I'm gonna try and get some more done tonight then do some editing.

13,500 words. I don't know if I've completed the birthday story but... I like the last sentence I wrote and don't wanna add more past that point so... I think it might be done. Maybe. We'll see. I'm gonna take a break from it and see how I feel later. The word-count will probably go up a little in editing anyway.

You know when I said this year's birthday story wouldn't reach the length of last year's Just a Normal Day? Well... I'm already on 10,000 words and I'm not finished yet. It's very likely it will exceed Just a Normal Day's wordcount now because I have one more section planned after the current one and possibly another depending on how I feel.

I'm so behind! I've been unexpectedly busy all week and I haven't gotten anything ready for an update yet. I'm contemplating whether to try and rush something now or just wait for Wednesday at this point. Most likely the latter as I want to give what ever I update my full attention. I also haven't caught up on some of my stories because I've been working on the birthday story and it's sort of messed up everything. I'm so sorry, I'll try and get something prepared for mid next week at the very least.

It'll either be Primal Instinct or By the Blade, We Are Bound most likely. I'll let you know soon which I pick closer to the date.

Drifter should hopefully be updated tomorrow but I will be out for most of the day, so it'll likely be rather late when it does go up. I'm gonna try and edit it tonight so it's ready.

Also, not sure if I'll be able to finish it but I've once again set myself the immensely stupid task of writing a birthday fic for Sonic in less than a month. Again. It mostly likely will not reach the length of Just a Normal Day but I have no idea how long it'll get. So far, I've just broken 4,000 words and have not yet reached the major plot point, so we'll see. I've had the idea for a few months now, no idea why I didn't just start it back then. Probably because that would have made my life easier.

In fact, thinking about it now, there must be deaf people in Camelot, right? Even if sign language "doesn't exist" in this world, this could even be an opening for Sonic to say that in his world there are people who communicate like this (including him)

By the way, is it Camelot or Logres? I always get confused lol, what is the kingdom/city?

Thank you for your question!

First of all, I hope you don't expect super detailed "lessons" because I myself do not know sign language unfortunately. I might look up some phrases or certain letters and try and describe those occasionally but otherwise it'll probably mostly less specific, sorry!

And yeah, there certainly would be some deaf or mute mobians and humans throughout Logres! It'll hopefully be a chance for Sonic to reach another portion of the population that he can relate to and help, like the homeless shelter he's planning on erecting.

I used the translator, sorry for any mistakes

Hi, thank you for your question!

Hi! I'm alright, hope you are too! Sorry it took me so long to get to your question!

Also sorry if there's some confusion. The Monarchs are Queen Aleana (Mobius), King Maximillian (Mobotropolis), Queen Alyva (Babylon) and King Mephiles (Soleanna).

The mobians he meets on a fairly regular basis are mostly nobles: Godfrey, Guinevere, Bartleby and Honey. The only exception being Ebony, who is actually a wizard not a noble.

Sorry, getting to this real late. I think The Mystery of the Mobian Royals is due to be updated tomorrow. I've been so distracted but I'll try and get that edited and up, internet willing.

And I know I have a few questions to answer - I'll hopefully get to those tomorrow too, promise!

Ok, so Drifter chapter three needs some more work. And I'm currently in the middle of working on The Mystery of the Mobian Royals. So it'll have to be I Live to Rule by the Sword tomorrow, internet willing.

I swear, it just blinked on and off so many times in the span of five minutes that it's going to drive me insane.

Hi @zuzumidoriya!

To be honest, I don't think I've ever said their exact ages, only that they're all in their twenties. So I'll do that here now:

Lancelot: twenty-six Percival: twenty-five Gawain: twenty-six Lamorak: twenty-four Galahad: twenty-one