Sequel Complete | Karma in Glorious Splendor | Chapter 20
Thank you all for following along on this multi-year journey to completion of Wednesday's senior year. I appreciate the patience of my readers for enduring multiple hiatuses during the writing of the Chaos for the Fly sequel - but alas, the official two-part series is complete!
The next continuation in the series will be the College Years Collection. This will be different in format / possibly mixed-POV. There is not enough story left for this to be an official 'trilogy' though I'm sure you can expect me to get carried away with it lmfao. I will be taking a break from the Chaos Universe for the summer and anticipate the third installment will start in September.
A graduate school AU featuring Wednesday x Enid will be up within the next week or two as my Wednesday summer project. Lovely Thorns (and Singing Vultures) will continue to have one-shots featuring OCs from the universe as well.
Thank you again for all the support, comments, kudos, shares, and general love for the series!
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How much of CftF and KiGS was outlined before you actually got to writing each story? (Basically, what did the process look like?) I’m asking because I am rereading both, during summer break as I anticipate The College Years, and there is so much foreshadowing. I’m wondering how much foreshadowing was purposeful or accidental, based on how much you knew about where the story was going, and how it would end for the plot and the characters. There are just so many details with so much dedication. I’m endlessly impressed.
Thank you for spending your time reading my works. I’m glad they are loved enough to be worth the reread! 🙏🏼
I am a 90s kid who is in her mid-thirties and old writing habits just don’t die, so I always start on paper. Between Chaos and Karma, I filled a 200 page notebook for the Chaos universe outlines / pre-writes / brain dumps / maps / course schedules / OC biographies / organization hierarchies, etc. Why is this important? Consistency. I like knowing where Wednesday is (supposed lol) to be on a Tuesday afternoon at three PM to keep it consistent, so yes - I make her and Enid a course schedule for myself. I’m actually flustered that to start The College Years, I’ll have to do so in a separate notebook and it doesn’t feel right. 😭
I always have a very vague outline of the entire story when I start, with at least the first few chapters more throughly outlined before I start writing. Usually I’ll have an ‘aha’ moment and about halfway through, write more of an advanced outline for each chapter to get a chapter count and then manically write out the main events of each chapter until the end. I’ll go more in-depth on them digitally when I’m ready to write the next chapter in a Word document. I do not use a single bit of AI in my process. I don’t even have my grammar check turned on (if that isn’t obvious by egregious misuse of homophones sometimes). I have my own style of writing fanfic due to personal/visual preference when it comes to dialogue. Since I was little, lowercase letters after quotation marks don’t settle right with my spirit, and grammar check hates that I do my own thing to satisfy my own needs. I also like double spacing between paragraphs because it’s easier for me to re-read. These aren’t published books and I can have my own style of fanfic writing. It’s just a hobby and I don’t care that it’s not technically correct.
Most of the time, foreshadowing was purposeful in the Chaos universe (think the Deathhead’s Hawk Moth early on). Sometimes I leave myself some ideas that I didn’t always elaborate on or even know that I’d go back to. The biggest one was QBB being Josie’s unknown father. The fact that her father was a terrible person and they didn’t know his identity was mentioned somewhere early in the story. (I started writing it in January of that year.) But I didn’t know that he was going to be her father until one day (in September of that year), I was driving on the highway and missed my exit because the idea came to me in a gasp like I’d been hit with a vision of my own. When these sorts of ideas come together - it might seem like I planned it, but really I didn’t! It happened in Karma with the cave, too!
My notes when doing an entire chapter-by-chapter outline of events sometimes say things like, “FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENS TO GET TO THIS POINT” (ie, the Cave) and RARELY do I have to actually sit there and ponder it because I’ve done enough work to not need to do that as I write.
And then there’s just so much from my first outlines that gets scrapped or completely changed. Originally Anika’s spirit wasn’t supposed to be an innocent entity. I wanted to take it down a more Conjuring-like route and have it be more of a demonic presence. However, as Wednesday and Enid were getting together romantically and I was getting closer to transforming Weems back into human, I realized that wouldn’t connect the rest of the story together very nicely, and started to expand upon other little ideas I’d thrown out (IE, the Network) and develop that more, which had a tremendous impact on the original outline and direction of the story. Chaos really spiraled away from some of the original goals, because it just kept coming to me so fast. Karma was a hell of a lot easier when I started, (even if it took me a hell of a lot longer) because I knew that the goal was to get Wednesday to graduation and have Weems be the Network president.
I think a lot of it had to do with the goings-on of my personal life, too. I was absolutely in a hypomaniac state during most of 2023 that contributed to pumping that story out at the pace I did. Between 2024 - December of 2025 I had so many major life changes and different mental health states that I couldn’t have kept up with that pace if I wanted to.
Thanks, as always, for all the support and engaging with me curiously as a fanfic author! I appreciate you!
i don't know why but part of me is really laughing that your idea of a vacation isn't just bringing your laptop to the beach to type a million words in the sand instead of from your desk! glad you enjoyed the trip but nervous to see you have lost some creative desire to write Wednesday? does that mean we might not get the grad school aU? take your time of course just please don't go away for too long again i struggled last year without you and i'm actually considering watching abbott just to read your fic!
First of all this is very funny to me, and second of all, I haven't used a desk in like...thirteen years - I don't even have a teacher desk in my classroom! And I like to write horizontally lol.
No beach this time! Every few years you and your honey need to visit the holy land where your prophet was born.
(prophet above - we 🫶🏼 attractions in TN, the smoky mtns, caves, all the touristy things in Sevier County, black bears, lazy rivers, and Zaxby's)
Since I started writing in the Chaos-verse, my lowest word count has been the summer. I think I'm just too relaxed and enjoying life to spend too much of my days writing, even though I could literally do so from sunrise to sunset! My brain and body are so in 'go' mode all the time during the school year and I truly, truly rest during the summers. I'm not sure why I'm feeling particularly uninterested in my own Wednesday concepts right now! But I do teach a short three-week summer school program starting in July; watch me suddenly find my will to write once I'm busy eight hours a day again lmfao. Fear not, I'm not gone (again)! Just taking it easy! 😘
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Are you still accepting prompts and if so what are the guidelines for them?
I'll always take a prompt if my ask is open, though there is literally no guarantee that i'll happen, lol. I'd say my creativity per Wednesday, even my own Chaos-verse is pretty stunted at the moment, but who knows - maybe the right prompt would get it going.
As for what I like in a prompt...In particular, writing about my Chaos OCs is always exciting just because I like thinking about them from other people's POVs. If it makes sense, I know what I already know about them, but when readers send promps with specific questions about my OCs really makes me think about them in different ways, and that's fun to do.
If there is a specific scene that happened "off screen" or to characters other than Wednesday in the Chaos-verse, it's always fun to write other POVs from a certain event we didn't see or through someone else's eyes...
...and then there's just general suggestions, I'm up for - though those are like, the least fun for me for some reason and usually don't happen.
I hope you're feeling better and your vacation went/is going well.
I message today because I remembered about Cabbage Patch Kids and had to ask if there had been consideration of having Holly have those from childhood instead of Care Bears.
But I feel as though with how analytical and sciencey her brain is with plants even as (or maybe especially as) a child she wouldn't have enjoyed them because, "what do you mean these babies came from cabbages? How is that suppose to work?" (Insert a childs dissertation on everything wrong with that.)
I don't know where I was going with this beyond I hope it amused you some.
I did look up what they look like becauae it has been a while since I had seen one and I think there is very little chance Chaosverse Wednesday would have taken one to cuddle.
I hope you have a good time finishing up your Abbott Elementary fic and the fans of it enjoy it.
Thank you for the well wishes! It was great! Though it is VERY IRONIC that you bring up Cabbage Patch Kids because I literally checked off a bucket list item of visiting Babyland General Hospital and witnessing the miracle of Mother Tree giving birth in the very real Cabbage Patch in Georgia on my trip lol. (It was honestly kind of mediocre and I have thoughts and feelings on making this a better attraction. They’ve just got to call me up and I’ll be back to make improvements lol.)
ANYWAY - if you weren’t a babydoll kid, you might not know - but CPK in particular make for terrible cuddle toys. Their bulky, hard heads make it a challenge to properly snuggle in with at night. Now did I tuck my Lullaby Cabbage Patch doll in beside me every night in bed? Yes, but I was curling up with my bear and blankie each night for proper rest.
AS FOR THE FIC, lol, I’m not so sure it’d be about the comfort or science of it all for Holly. I think she’s so detached from people that the thought of having a humanoid creature in bed with her would have been very off putting. (There is a specific sequence about how much Holly hates babies/Barbies/dolls - but that is in the 200k childhood fic I wrote for just T.Martel and I that I never published anywhere so ya’ll wouldn’t know that lol.) And I agree, there is a zero percent chance that Wednesday would’ve done anything other than bring a CPK to her guillotine. “They had sex,” from AFV strikes me as Wednesday’s view of such fanciful birth lore lol. Fun to think about - thanks for the ask and VERY ironic timing, lol!
I had hoped to have my new multi-chapter Wenclair grad school AU out this week/end, but there is no tired like teacher tired during the first and last weeks of the school year. 😴 It's simply not happening - hopefully next week/end!
Summary below if you want to know what's coming!
Studying dance and movement therapy at graduate school is supposed to be Enid’s opportunity to start over. Wednesday is only at the pitiful excuse of a university as her last chance to enter the field of criminality before falling victim to it herself.
Being forced into a married housing unit as the most volatile forensic psychology student of all time and the bubbly roommate who is overcompensating in drastic ways, the two will have to put extreme personality differences aside. Uncovering the secrets behind their university’s association with the psychiatric hospital they are forced to intern in will require cooperation and understanding of far more than theory.
Wenclair, slow-burn, no-powers AU retelling of some combined events from S1&S2 with plenty of university antics
Sometimes you're not just a tired teacher at the end of the school year, you're violently ill.
anyway -
I re-read the masterpiece that is my Abbott multichapter fic so that I could work on the next chapter of it and holy shit - I'm really sorry that about 99% of you are here for Wednesday, because I really think that's my best writing I've put out in the last three years.
I am about halfway done with the first chapter of the above-mentioned Wenclair AU, but I've just been too sick to be overly creative, and I'm about to go on vacation (once the antibiotics kick in). I think I'm just going to pause on putting anything out until I get back so that it's not rushed.
tl;dr - In early July I should have the first chapter to the Wednesday AU and a Break Even update!
This show y'all, it's as if someone read my dream journal for how to make the perfect horror/mystery show. Comedy is 10/10, spookies 10/10, Matthew Rhys' facial expressions, 10289230/10 🏝
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Have you, as a writer, joined some writer's group or discord to exchange ideas with or interacted with people in the fandom? How was the experience? And in overall, have you found some authentic people or friends along the way? With how long you have been in the fandom, I am curious if one can make friendships or anything like that within any fandom in general.
can't tell if you mean THE fandom as in Wednesday or "how long" I've been in fandoms period (longer than half of my followers have been alive)
Disclaimer to be explicit: I do not feel that the people who are asking me questions here or engaging in comments with me are bothering me in any way- I want to make that clear in case it's not. If I did not want to talk to people that way, I'd simply toggle those features off. Since the people who were harassing me from August of 2024 through last year got lives/disappeared and I felt comfortable doing so, I have enjoyed talking to you guys here over the last few months through posts and asks! Honestly it really helped me get through the end of KiGS - so thank you! ☺️ 👉🏼👈🏼 These are just my overall thoughts on the state of fandom these days in general. I am not talking about any one person.
I have and would not use a Discord server. I don’t like the ‘exclusivity’ of it and how ‘private’ it is. I liked message boards back when I used them for fandom between 2003-2012 because they were public. Of course there were always groups of people that went off and started messaging privately at some point because we'd start to get off-topic, and that’s how friendships were formed (ie - how I met T. Martel in ’09) but overall, I feel like Discord is ground zero for creeps and grooming behavior and public message boards were at least able to mod a lot of that out without the wall of privacy blocking it from other eyes in the fandom - sort of like a warning system.
Layla is here on Tumblr and on AO3 - that’s it. To this day I don't understand the purpose of Tumblr communities when there is already an adequate tagging system here. I refuse to be on X, or in the Wednesday/Wenclair Subreddits because I don't find value in either platform, my experience with both over the years is that they are filled with miserable and negative people. (I know people talk shit about me on Reddit because enough have come to me concerned about certain accounts dog-piling on me there, but I really don’t give a fuck and certainly not enough to actually engage with keyboard warriors there.)
On top of that - with the Wednesday fandom in particular, I had enough of a harassment problem already and don’t think I need to open myself up to any more of that by engaging any more than I currently do. As I sad above, I am happy to talk publicly here through asks and comments on my posts when they are on, or in comments on AO3 (which I swear to all the old gods, I’m going to get to this week lol I just don’t really like going there and seeing the stats very often - the 0.01% engagement can get to a person at times lol) but I don’t think anyone in the fandom needs any more access to me than that and I hope that can continue to be understood and respected. 🫶🏼😇
I’m sure it’s still very possible to make good friends in fandom that turn to real-life friends, but I just don’t think the internet is anything like it used to be. Seventeen years ago I met my beta, later best friend, now girlfriend through my fanfic writing and message boards. But I feel like the entire media and social landscape of the internet has changed. Tumblr wasn’t owned by Yahoo, Twitter was an infant, Instagram didn’t even exist yet. We didn’t have smartphones…It was an entirely different world. To an extent, the internet was still a “place” not something that was attached to us in multiple devices and I think that there was more healthy separation between people and fandoms - much as I obsessed over things in similar fashion, it wasn’t our entire life because we just didn’t have the same access to it that we do now.
I also think I just got lucky with T. Martel. I have met **quite** a few online friends in real life over the years, and I after meeting many of them, severed all connection with them. (It turns out a lot of people who complain about not having any friends in real life on the internet are just creeps in real life, no matter how much they engage with you in fandom.) I have had issues with stalking in real life from the internet and have learned my lesson. Nobody I meet online anymore in the last decade of fandoms, no matter how close we are, will ever receive my real contact email / name / photo / City/State, etc. Fandom is supposed to be a hobby, not your life.
Now if I ever decide to work on professional writing? I might turn to a writing community, but somehow - that just feels different.
The real question I have for Layla is: how the heck are you a teacher? WHY and HOW are you not a published author? 😭 WHO KEPT YOU FROM YOUR PASSION??!! I'm sure you're as great of a teacher as you are a writer but I feel like you love this so much. You could have a career out of it. I'm sorry if this comes across offensive, I don't mean it to.
I wanted to major in journalism and minor in creative writing when I was a junior/senior in high school. It was my dream. Then three things happened as I was graduating that were a perfect shit storm put an end to it: The (first) Writer’s Strike (07-08), The Global Financial Crisis / Great Recession (07-09), and the collapse of print media/newspapers during that time.
tl;dr - college in the US is a financial scam, and my blue-collar parents wouldn’t co-sign my college loans if I was going into journalism/writing because they didn’t see a path to a stable job. I had earned multiple scholarships, but it was only going to pay for about half my tuition and I needed loans. I went with a career that seemed safe from recession and I knew I could be good at based on my high school experiences of working with early childhood and elementary age students.
I am a damn good (*cough* five star / highly effective *cough*) teacher. I like it and I am passionate about teaching. It's really easy for me. Kids make amazing growth in my program. I get lots of time off. It pays the bills. It's just not what I wanted to do with my life, and I wouldn't recommend anyone go into education under the current conditions in the US. Someday I might publish my own work, but it's not what I'm interested in right now.
