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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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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This is your opportunity to block the Widow's Bay and/or Spoilers tag if you do not want to have this immaculate program ruined for you. Sunset Cocktails with Patricia starts tonight in my world and if you don't want to be spoiled for the best episode of television I have seen in damn near a decade, please curate your Tumblr experience now.
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.
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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.
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
PART 1 BECAUSE I CAN'T POST ALL 35 PAGES IN ONE GO BUT DON'T WORRY I'LL REBLOG THE NEXT PARTS IMMEDIATELY!!
I'm so glad that after so long I finally managed to finish this freaking comic T^T I CAN Finally MOVE ON TO OTHER STUFF WOOHOO
Some things I've noticed while making this: I need to be sure of the pacing before I start cleaning up anything, I think that was definitely my biggest struggle, also I think my consistency is not the best (character wise) so I'll do some digging into that too.
If I could change anything as of now it'd be the corny and cringy dialogue… ANYWAY.
Overall this was a fun project! And also the biggest fancomic I've ever made! Thank you for your patience<3
The Boroughs is the worst show I've watched in a long time.
I keep picking shows that everyone is raving about and watching them feeling like I'm living in a different reality because I do not understand the hype (Sirens, Wayward also watched in the last year that on that list for me).
I wanted to like The Boroughs. I wanted to give the Duffer Brothers another chance (I have tried Stranger Things so many times and it just doesn't do it for me, either). We need more representation of older people doing non-stereotypically 'elderly' roles in Hollywood...though I'll say the actresses in this show really don't want to show us a naturally aging woman (and I love Gina Davis but goodness whatever she's got pumped in her face is tough on the eyes).
I'm not sure how this show was about grief. Found family is generally my weakness but I thought they really never brought out the best in each other and consistently made me wish they were back to their own agendas. I was not rooting for a single character. Why was I supposed to care about Mother? The lack of backstory there (likely due to the never-ending strain of the eight-episode "season") and lack of consistent universe rules, on top of terrible dialogue, oftentimes rough acting and some REALLY BAD WIGS made this show a chore to get through. The most interesting parts of the show were already gone by the third episode (Ed), and the place I really wanted to explore (The Manor) could have had so much potential and was drastically underutilized.
Oh well. I'll just get back to writing my own version of other shows that disappointed me, too.
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There's a snake named tofu that showed up in my scrolling multiple times for having beef with a random youtuber named markiplier (https://m.youtube.com/shorts/wWG_7u7bqCQ) and i immediately thought of GusGus and Altair. Altair is absolutly silly enough for it, but unless its a one-shot I think that gusgus is more fitting in the present.
Now i hc (yes your chaos universe is big enough to have hc of OC animals) that in the college years gusgus would find someone (or something) mundane very offensive and would have a one-way-all-consuming beef with said something/someone lol (enid of course takes it very seriously and tries to reconcile them).
I absolutly adore your work and clearly my mind is trying to reconcile the fact that we wont have new chaos content for some time with filling in the gaps💔
I love Tofu! I haven't seen him on TikTok in awhile, thank you for reminding me about him so I could search and get him back.
I want a snake so badly, but I haven't proved to have a great track record with pets. When I'm older and more responsible, like when I'm forty-two, maybe I can have one.
As a special treat for my trip around the sun, I took the day off and am going to hold snakes tomorrow at a reptile house and I'm VERY excited!
Altair is sometimes jealous, but certainly just generally irritated with GusGus because he's just a baby and he's annoying. He'll be entering his angsty teen stage (two years old) as Wednesday transitions to college. That should be fun for all of us!
So glad you love my make believe danger noodles! There will be a Josie one-shot coming sometime this weekend, but it's pre-Altair, sadly.
Summary: A deadly disease is sweeping through Republic City — no one has immunity, and no healer has discovered a cure.
While Katara is working on helping those affected, one of her own children comes down with the illness, forcing her to find the source of the disease so it can be healed, or lose her only daughter.
This story was on Tumblr originally sometime between 2012-2014 and hasn't been here in almost a decade. Revised and edited - sharing again on AO3!
