messed up forever

❓No dumb questions amnesty - can you explain this [line/dialogue/moment from the story]?

🏴‍☠️ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?

🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?

🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them?

🍆 What scene do you think was the hottest? What scene do you think your readers thought was the hottest? Are they the same?

🔮Have you imagined what happens to [character(s)] in the future? Or does the story only exist to you as a moment in time?

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

🧭 What was the key choice or decision you had to make for this story? If you had chosen differently, what would the story have turned into?

📖 Could the story have been a different length? What would you have included/removed?

🫂How would the story have changed if you wrote it for [this pairing] instead?

💭 If you could wish into creation a transformative piece for your story, made by a real human who isn’t you, what would it be? Art, video, sequel, podfic, etc.

📋What was your main goal for the story and/or writing experience? Do you think that you achieved it?

🎤 Do you think the story was written in your typical voice? Why or why not?

👉👈What two stories have you written that are most similar? Why?

👈👉What two stories have you written that are most different? Why?

rating: mature pairing: it's complicated word count: 13268 (1/?) summary:

In November, during a thunderstorm that meant daddy had to come in from work early and Victoria was in bed so Robert was cuddled between his mummy and daddy with hot chocolates watching Scooby-Doo, there was a knock at the front door. That was how John arrived. OR a reimagining of canon if john had been present in the sugden's lives since childhood. he is not well-adjusted

(aaron's not in the first chapter but he will be soon)

read on ao3

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rating: Teen pairing: aaron dingle/robert sugden word count: 6500 summary:

Robert has taken to moving around the village like a ghost who’s afraid of taking up too much space as he haunts. Given the spectacle he’d been making of himself even as recently as a couple of weeks ago, it’s a concerning U-turn.  Robert isn't as okay as he seems in summer 2025. Aaron is determined to get to the bottom of why that is.