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i just wanted to post bc im watching girl meets world for the first time, and there was a scene where the main characters are having a school dance, and who is the live band but sheppard!! they started playing say geronimo, and i messaged one of my friends and was like there is no way theyre playing my credits-rolling song from mia on girl meets world. but they were! and it made me think again about how mia is such a period piece.

its funny bc i only set it back four years from when i started it. i think the reason initially was something about wanting the dates and days to line up a certain way or something and then seeing what year that would make it, but it worked so well in 2014, bc in 2018 and 19 when i was writing the majority of it, i was so close to 2014 still that i knew how it all felt and what had been the most important. and what really felt 2014 had solidified in my mind, you know?

a fun challenge was that i had to keep doing searches like, which movies would be coming out right now? what are the new albums in this certain month? what current events are happening? and it was such a fun part of the process.

and now watching a show that was actually airing right around that time and seeing the song that i chose specifically as the feel-good, fun, everything-is-sort-of-resolved-but-not-really song to play at awsten's birthday party show up in girl meets world as the everything-is-a-little-crazy-but-its-probably-going-to-be-okay song, like... idk. it made me feel happy :) and i wanted to share that here.

awsten is the absolute cutest and does all the things that happen in his books. thinking he literally brings a plastic water bottle filled with warm water to geoff ("hot water bottle") and puts a towel on his forehead and stuff.

geoff is grumpy about it and tries to get awsten to stop but he also thinks it's really sweet, especially when tiny awsten brings his toy doctor kit in to "check daddy's temperature" and listen to his heart. then he gives geoff a "shot" and puts a real band-aid on geoff's hand and declares him all better. geoff thanks him and says he needs to rest after his shot and could awsten please close the door behind him.

it's so cool seeing everybody get older and still think about mia sometimes <3333 i was in my early/mid-20s when i wrote it, but i know a fair bit of the readers were teenagers. it's so fun for me looking back bc i know stuff from those ages really sticks with people, and it's crazy to me that mia might be something that sticks with some of yall.

i just finished MIA (the first one) (actually i finished like thirty minutes ago but i was just laying down thinking about it for a while before i started writing this) . i love this story so incredibly much. the character development is so amazing, like better than most books i’ve read ever.

it’s only been like a week or two since i started reading but like i. wow. this is so much more than a story to me, im gonna try not to dump personal stuff on you but the ending especially was like kinda really healing to read (sorry if that sounds dramatic or weird or stuff)

this is absolutely amazing i can’t fully put it into words. you are so talented. this is so beautiful. i loved EVERYTHING about it. absolutely everything. just wow.

i’m not really sure how to end this but i hope you have a good day. thank you for this. WOW

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:'))))

not dramatic or weird. this is so, so, so sweet. thank you!!! tumblr says you sent this a long time ago but i hope you're doing well if you see this and thank you so much for taking the time to share this with me <3333333