ur trusty unreliable narrator

the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it

this is why college, modern, bakery, flower shop, fantasy, post apoc, etc etc AU is either boring af to me or one of the best stories in a fandom. the thing that makes or breaks the story is whether or not the setting change is treated with the weight of a Character-- how does it impact characters and still keep them recognizable? it's like you've given everyone a new bestie or enemy and they all have to live with it. how does it shape them and change them? what parts survive? what parts of them impact the setting?

yeah i couldn’t be trusted with a penis id get hard from the way the sun shines through the leaves and everyone would hate me

my girlfriend just tried to make a tlt reference and asked “what’s her name? haroo harkness?”

there's something very interesting about john putting alecto into a body explicitly inspired by a white, blonde barbie and she thinks it's hideous. and then in the process of waking up she gets zonked into harrow's darker skinned, three-apples-tall, stick-thin body and experiences more love and care in six months than she ever received as alecto and thinks that she's gorgeous.