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ceo mira au anybody 😳

hardly annoying me. in fact, i was giggling and kicking my feet while reading this 🙂‍↕️

i love that y'all are having so much fun with this fic! iden and i were just talking about how fun it is to see people picking up what we've been putting down---very satisfying and affirming. we've spent hours and days and weeks thinking over every scene and word and Implication for these fics. we're very intentional with how we want the characters to be read, and the reactions to the latest chapter of I Know The End have proven our efforts fruitful :D

it's very heartwarming to see you and others share your thoughts and theories on this story. as we pass the 100k published word count for the series, i keep thinking about where this all started and where we are now. iden and i genuinely thought this would be a one-shot at first, i'm not joking 😭 by now i've given up on any kind of word count or chapter count expectation, as we've consistently blown right past our estimations and plans every single time we adjust them. IKTE was supposed to be 3 chapters of vignettes.... and now here we are..... and i wouldn't change it <3

Nevermind that Rumi and Jinu show up near them a few songs into her little routine. Nevermind that she and Rumi find themselves face-to-face as Jinu presses up against Rumi's backside and Other Woman presses up against Mira's and the crowd closes in and presses them all closer. Nevermind that Mira has a leg between Rumi's legs and vice-versa as Mira transitions back to more standard bump-and-grind club dancing. Nevermind that Rumi is only inches in front of her, staring at her like she wants to eat her alive as Jinu's hands grope and slide over the smooth fabric of her sinfully revealing black dress. Nevermind that Other Woman's hands are roaming Mira's stomach, her mouth on the side of Mira's neck and along her shoulder and all Mira can think about in her drunken, overwhelmed state is that Rumi looks like she's less than a second away from biting Other Woman's head off and Mira wants her to. She wants Rumi's hands on her. Wants her mouth on her. Wants her teeth on her. Her fingers in her.

CHAPTER 4 of I Know The End is HEREEEE

suggested listening is PIRANHA by Lights AND Black Friday by Tom Odell

we're sorry, please forgive us for this chapter.... and it's only going to get worse i fear.......

BUT you can still rejoice, as i am officially UNBURDENED by ACADEMIA!!! i have many plans and many ideas, as i have mentioned before, but now i have the time to actually do them!

i hope to post a lot more frequently, but bear with me as i continue to carefully dodge burnout :)

"Rumi…?" Rumi shuffles some, pulling Mira with her so that Rumi can spoon her properly, and Mira relaxes against her as Rumi murmurs, "Stay." The small smile is evident in her voice as Mira whispers in return, hands overlapping Rumi's own, "…okay."

super excited for y'all to really start to see the seeds we've sown for the main fic >:)) iden and i put a lot of work into planning everything out and scrutinized our characterizations to hell and back. neither of us thought that this project would become this big, with a combined word count of 90k and not even halfway through either fic 😭 but these are all good things

i want to thank everyone who has been following along with this fic and who has been patient with our nebulous posting schedule 😳

for those who haven't seen my latest post, i've been busy!! BUT i will be freer soon! this means more art outside of chapter announcements and more online presence in general.

if you want to know more abt why i've been so busy take a look here <-

for now, please enjoy witnessing myself facing the consequences of my own actions :)

thank you for asking! it's awesome that you yearn for more art!!

this is actually the perfect opportunity to tell y'all what i've been up to these past 2 months (besides ceo au, ofc) 😛i've been incredibly busy with wrapping up my last term of uni! the only time i could give to drawing anything outside of my school work was only enough for these chapter releases (trust, i was in the studio in between classes working on ceo au smut). on top of school, i've been getting ready to move!

I have plenty of WIPs, but I struggle to post those mostly bc i'm a perfectionist 😭 but this means that i'll have plenty of projects to finish and post >:)

however, i'm graduating this friday!!!! so the busyness should die down enough for me to start posting more consistently :) i've got PLENTY of ideas i want to illustrate, so don't worry about my holding back on account of spoilers. especially since i like "spoiling" just enough to stir up some drama 😈

that being said... give it a week or two before i follow through on that promise 🥵 i've still got a lot of packing and moving to do. but as soon as i settle in... ;)

i don't think anyone has asked this so you're good!!

since the trend these days in the writing process is "oh, actually, we want to say so much more," we're planning on taking the preq all the way up until the interview 😈

but worry not about prolonged suffering!! there's domesticity and sweetness (and smut) and a glimpse of What Could Be sprinkled in later in the preq!! and also plenty of time skips :)

suggested listening is PIRANHA by Lights

CHAPTER 2 OF I Know The End THE CEO AU PREQ IS OUTTT

Mira hums and turns on the hot water tap, letting it warm up as she leans against the bathroom counter. "Sorry. I went out for drinks and… got distracted almost immediately upon getting there." "...I assume you had a good night?" Rumi teases, her stomach doing a weird swoop when she notices the marks moving up the insides of Mira's thighs. Mira instantly blushes and clears her throat, a nervous giggle breaking free as she averts her gaze from Rumi's to her own reflection in the mirror — and oh, that's… that's new and different.

a HUGE word count jump from the first chapter, but for Good Reason. there's just so much to say about early rumira, and so many dominoes needed to lead into where we're at in HTFOTJ (a butt-ugly acronym i'm so mad). but this chapter (and the next) in particular are incredibly important as they show why everything is Fucked Up. and we're not even at my favorite part yet 😈

reading the preq isn't needed to understand everything happening in HTFOTJ... but it definitely enhances it. we are Conscious of when we post the chapters for each fic... ;) they rhyme....

thank you! in terms of having a schedule… not really, at least not intentionally. iden and i are constantly working on the fics and art, though! currently, iden is writing THREE simultaneous fics for the ceo au, EVERYONE SAY WOW AND THANK YOUUU

this means: the current timeline How To Finish on the Job, the rumira prequel I Know The End, and a third ceo au fic we haven’t announced yet ;)

this is all to say that we’ve been updating whenever we can, and that tends to be every 2-3 weeks. SO, keep your eyes peeled for a new prequel chapter sometime soon ;)

I think this would genuinely be hot asf highkey just wanted to bring it up because I haven't seen anyone else say anything about it!! 😞

that part of the house was definitely designed with... viewing in mind 😏 zoey is gonna be getting A LOT of information about rumi and mira's dynamic

we know mira fell first and the love is reciprocated but uncommunicated by the point we're at in the main story but I'm struggling to understand why rumi has withheld that information for so long.

i think I've settled on, she must genuinely believe that mira only sees her as a best friend/pa so she plays into that role to keep mira close and "maintain the status quo" but like the writing's on the wall😭😭

Idk chp 5 threw me for a doozy and the only reasonable conclusion I can come to as to the end of the chapter is that rumi thinks zoey is going to replace her, and she believes she's replaceable to both mira and the twins (hence, her general melancholy and withdrawal the entire chapter) because she doesn't hold more value to mira than a fwb. this would also explain why she so vehemently denies that she's the twins' mother (when she mentioned that the twins were their kids at the office, mira shut her down and insisted that they were simply hers (but like omg she was only using rumi's own insistence against her) and invoked the boss-employee relationship, and both slights were because rumi displeased her)

I didn't mean to write a book here lol I just have so many questions and theories

idk, after all this hypothesizing I think it might just be a coping mechanism stemming from abandonment issues caused by her parent's deaths. perhaps she keeps mira and the twins at a certain distance bc their perceived inevitable loss will be less catastrophic if she doesn't allow herself to be completely immersed in the family of it all. poor rumi. poor(er?) mira. fucking dumbasses, the both of them!

ouuuugh!!!! i love your thoughts. rumi certainly has a few illogical thought processes going on throughout the whole fic, but most prominent in the past two chapters (chap 4 + 5) — and we haven’t even gotten into the meat of it

As for trying to make sense of what we do see, i suggest tuning in to the prequel 🙂‍↕️ the parallels we’re setting up between the past and present are gonna go crazy. 

speculation is ALWAYS welcome, iden and i love reading what y’all have to say and what you think is going on. there’s been a lot of interesting theories and reads so far, and a few have gotten pretty close to what we have planned 😈 we’ve put a lot of work into plotting everything out so that the small reveals make sense in the moment, and come together at the end to create the full picture.

suggested listening is Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) by Billy Joel

(out of any other suggested listenings i NEED y'all to listen to this)

CHAPTER 5 LET'S GOOOOOOO

this one is a doozy guys....

suggested listening is GALA by XG

CEO AU CELINE IS HERRREEEE as well as CHAPTER 4

AND the reveal of mira's fashion brand M/NHWA

i honestly spent wayyyy too much time designing the logo. iden and i spent a good hour just going back and forth coming up with ideas for the name alone 😭 i've had this logo made for a LONG while now, probably since I started seriousposting stuff for this au. i've been waiting for the perfect moment to reveal it 😈 although, those with a keen eye will notice that zoey's racing jacket in this post has the logo on it ;)

anyway, for a better look at the logo itself ->

AND a slight alternate version of the magazine cover <3 it was hard to decide for a while

I'm so intrigued by this world the two of you have made available to us. the premise is genuinely so intriguing.

free me from this cell!!!!!😭😭😭

yayayay!!!! i’m so glad you’re having so much fun with the fic! when i posted the first little sketches for the ceo au, i never thought it would turn into all this. esp since the whole basis of the au at the time was “ceo mira hot?? freaky nasty sex 🥵”

iden and i are, in no way, finished with this au 😈 for both of us, it’s the only thing we can think about these days 😭 this is to say… i’m in the cell next to yours

I noticed that recommended listening for their scenes has had not just one but *two* songs from Lights' album A6EXTENDED... is it safe to say that pretty much that whole album is (college era) rumira-coded? Bc I'm sososo ready to hurt my own feelings listening to Pirhana on repeat if that's what god intended (and it feels like it is lol)

oh absolutely. actually, i had never heard of them or this particular album until iden suggested it for the playlist :D so thank them for blessing ceo au 🙂‍↕️

i will also specifically highlight CLINGY and DAY TWO 😈

if you look inside her closet that's all there is.

suggested listening is Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne

prequel fic?? in my ceo au? it's more likely than you think.

EVERYONE SAY HI TO I Know the End BY GIZMODO ( @iden-tify)

i'm SUPER excited for y'all to get a deeper look at rumi and mira's history together. this is something that iden and i have been working on since we started this whole thing. PLEASE go give it a read! i wouldn't say it's... essential reading in order to understand the main fic.... but oh my god does it explain so much, and is such a fun story all on its own :)

also.... it will explain some of the art i've already posted for it here: 1 2 3 4 5

suggested listening is Leak It by FLO

uncensored 😛

CHAP 3 IS OUT

you know that mira and rumi still use snapchat, they are millennials <//3