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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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.
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
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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.
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!
Summary: Josie and Emiliana have been broken up for nearly a year. When Josie accidentally runs into Emiliana in the midst of a surge of visions, feelings come soaring back.
aka: the JosiexEmi breakup makeup alluded to many times in CftF and KiGS
Also: Karma in Glorious Splendor officially ends this weekend. 😭🐍
Chapter twenty will be up by Saturday night (EST) at the latest.
I've finally figured out what to do with all my OC one-shots, which was what I intended to do with them in 2023 before I became distracted by Holly x Larissa.
All of my original character one-shots for Wednesday (currently, Holly x Larissa and Josie x Emi) are now housed and updated in Lovely Thorns (and Singing Vultures) to make them easy to find/read on AO3. The story is attached to the Chaos universe for continuity.
Chapters 1-8 are currently Holly x Larissa, Chapters 9 - 13 are Josie x Emi. Very few of you have probably read chapter eleven, which was written in 2023 right after chapter 16 of CftF. Now available for all, along with the new one-shot above. 😘
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5+1 Established Wenclair as adults, navigating grief
Voting ended onMay 24
I'm very close to being finished with Karma in Glorious Splendor! This summer, I'll be completing my Abbott Elementary multi-chapter fic and working on editing some old Avatar: The Last Airbender stories to match my current style/posting those in honor of the new movie coming out this fall*. I have had some Wednesday fics brewing in my notebook since 2024 that I want to work on as well. I can't decide which short story to start first! Thanks in advance for assisting me in narrowing down the field.
Those are VERY vague descriptions of fics in the poll, but I don't want to give too much away! Just a general concept. At some point, I'd like to write all of these. ALL STORIES WILL INCLUDE AGNES! I haven't gotten to write her yet and she was the ONLY part of season two that I enjoyed, so I'm eager to do so.
I don't see myself working on the Chaos College Years Collection right away after I finish KiGS. I'm taking the summer off from that universe (remember, it's not a trilogy either - just a collection of highlights from life after Nevermore) so that's not a choice! I want to write something a little less all-consuming while I finish other stories that I can complete in just a few weeks.
I'll also be tackling the Josie/Emi prompts that have been sitting in my inbox - but those are just one-day, >10k writes. I'm looking for my "summer project."
Also - confession...there will be heterosexuality 🫠 I am forever and always a Kataang shipper. I have been on that train for TWENTY-ONE YEARS. I was on the first Kataang message board that existed in 2005. I wrote some of the earliest fics! Those will NOT be the ones I revisit, lol, but I'm holding onto them with a fist - they've been an always and forever fandom and ship for me. I haven't written anything A:tLA since 2014 and am eager to edit / share some of my stories that I remain proud of from that era.
By just 1.2% - the grad student AU wins out for my summer short story! The 1920s AU will be the next one, which is great because the more I think about it, the less I think I can make it a short story that I wrap up in just a few weeks.
I only have two scenes left to write then editing for Karma in Glorious Splendor. Low-key I am very sad that it’s over lol.
I’m also finishing up another Josie x Emi prompt from my inbox and am so glad I invented these tragic idiots and that I can just write about them whenever I want.
It’s so great to be a writer even if you sometimes devastate yourself.
5+1 Established Wenclair as adults, navigating grief
Voting ended onMay 24
I'm very close to being finished with Karma in Glorious Splendor! This summer, I'll be completing my Abbott Elementary multi-chapter fic and working on editing some old Avatar: The Last Airbender stories to match my current style/posting those in honor of the new movie coming out this fall*. I have had some Wednesday fics brewing in my notebook since 2024 that I want to work on as well. I can't decide which short story to start first! Thanks in advance for assisting me in narrowing down the field.
Those are VERY vague descriptions of fics in the poll, but I don't want to give too much away! Just a general concept. At some point, I'd like to write all of these. ALL STORIES WILL INCLUDE AGNES! I haven't gotten to write her yet and she was the ONLY part of season two that I enjoyed, so I'm eager to do so.
I don't see myself working on the Chaos College Years Collection right away after I finish KiGS. I'm taking the summer off from that universe (remember, it's not a trilogy either - just a collection of highlights from life after Nevermore) so that's not a choice! I want to write something a little less all-consuming while I finish other stories that I can complete in just a few weeks.
I'll also be tackling the Josie/Emi prompts that have been sitting in my inbox - but those are just one-day, >10k writes. I'm looking for my "summer project."
Also - confession...there will be heterosexuality 🫠 I am forever and always a Kataang shipper. I have been on that train for TWENTY-ONE YEARS. I was on the first Kataang message board that existed in 2005. I wrote some of the earliest fics! Those will NOT be the ones I revisit, lol, but I'm holding onto them with a fist - they've been an always and forever fandom and ship for me. I haven't written anything A:tLA since 2014 and am eager to edit / share some of my stories that I remain proud of from that era.
I am really unwell at the thought of kigs ending and not having Josie and Emi in fics anymore. I can read eleven thousand other wenclair fics but there's only one chaos universe with the most interesting, best written ocs of all time.
For the college years, are we still going to see Josie and Emi as often as we do in the two main stories? I will literally miss them so much. They might be my favorite characters even more than Wednesday and Enid at this point and I’m not going to lie I am stressed about losing them.
😭🫶🏼 I am thankful they are so loved!
Of course we’ll still see Josie and Em in the college years! In fact - the first main arc is actually going to be about them in a way. I’ve been dropping hints since chapter seventeen. There has been a trail of foreshadowing I’ve been leaving that will lead up to a massive reveal and plot for the first installment of the college years collection!
Since the post-sequel fics won’t be the same type of story (it's not a trilogy), I’m even considering playing with POV and structure so they won’t all just be Wednesday’s limited, narrow view of events.
I also have six prompts sitting in my inbox (keep ‘em coming) for Josie x Emi one-shots. Once KiGS is wrapped, I’m going to work on those and do a little bit of re-structuring up on AO3 for my bonus content to keep it all in the Chaos Universe series tab.
About to start the new chapter! I've been anticipating this all day, and on one hand I'm so excited and I can't wait to see what happens, on the other hand, that cliff hanger I know I've got waiting for me and the mention in the Emi oneshot with Joannes that Wednesday is being a brat again (which don't get me wrong is quintessential to the fic, I just love it when everyone is getting along) has me feeling a bit cautious lol
Ahh - thank you for reminding me - I meant to link that lil ficlet in the text of KiGS Chapter 19!
Enjoy your light torture! It really would have been soooooo much better if I'd have just finished writing as I was supposed to, it could've been a way worse cliff to hang off of, but alas.
Wednesday's surliness is finally coming to an end for the two-part sequel...but something tells me we'll see her crashing out and taking it out on everyone around her in the post-high school college series as well, not to fear!
Happy reading - I'll be working away at chapter twenty. 🫡
I lied. I said I'd post the entire ending when chapters nineteen and twenty were finished, but I loved where I stopped the penultimate chapter. I simply couldn't resist dangling the readers off the cliff for one final time in the Chaos universe.
The conclusion of my epic will be posted before 'Tish and Wednesday's Litha traditions aka - before summer.
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I lied. I said I'd post the entire ending when chapters nineteen and twenty were finished, but I loved where I stopped the penultimate chapter. I simply couldn't resist dangling the readers off the cliff for one final time in the Chaos universe.
The conclusion of my epic will be posted before 'Tish and Wednesday's Litha traditions aka - before summer.
hey! i've noticed in some of your fics that you have a few welsh/wales references, and as a welsh wenclair shipper its so exciting to see these little references to my country, because it usually feels like no one knows we actually exist lol. i guess i was wondering if you had any connections to wales, or whether they were just coincidental references?? either way im so happy to see them and just know that they are appreciated!!
Tragically, I'm a sad-ass American from the Midwest (though I have lived on both coasts) who has never traveled outside of North America. 😭
Any UK-based references are due to heavy research for Larissa Weems and her storyline.
Though I've never been, my current DREAM is to get to the UK - particularly the West End - so that I can see this MAJESTIC BOY in person:
I literally cry whenever clips for the Paddington Musical show up on my FYP because I love him sfm 😭
Anyway - I also leaned a bit into some Welch lore for Morticia because there isn't anything official and CZ-J is from Wales. So creative, I know.
