Blonde Pain in the Ass

I wrote this, in 2015 and 2016, a monster of a fic that went from “haha 16 chapters at most, like 2-5K words each” to a massive 28 chapter epic of over 220k words and 7 spin-offs. And @ohmightydevviepuu surprised me by binding it, by hand, into two novels (JUST THE ONE STORY BECAUSE IT WAS TOO LONG JUST BY ITSELF???) and honestly I’ve had these for weeks and only just now stopped looking at them like they might vanish. It’s one thing to know how verbose you are and another to see it in physical form, like yeah you wrote so much about love and trauma and healing and family and *so many horses* that it’s literally not gonna all fit into one book.

Anyway, Dev made me cry and i texted several people to yell at them because only @distant-rose knew my address and @idoltina had commissioned that art from @iverna for my birthday a few years ago (a scene from one of the penultimate chapters) that Dev then used for the covers, and then it turns out literally everyone knew this was happening and there was a collective worry about the post office.