#ailts

𖤓☽ 11k words | EXPLICIT | ZoLu | Luffy's heat chapter (warnings for dom bottom Luffy, sub top Zoro, references to previous SA & noncon, knotting, biting, fighting, gratuitous explicit sexual content)

𖤓☽ https://archiveofourown.org/works/60278761/chapters/215914696

𖤓☽ 13k words | EXPLICIT | plot heavy flashback; ⚠️CW for kidnapping, religious cults, references to underage noncon, stress induced presentation/heats, cannibalism (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ ALL TAGS IN THE BEGINNING A/N!)

𖤓☽https://archiveofourown.org/works/60278761/chapters/220885376

as icarus loved the sun (too close, too much)

Chapter 6 | 12.5k words | EXPLICIT

𖤓 as icarus loved the sun (too close, too much)

𖤓 zolu | will eventually be rated E

𖤓 omegaverse, A/B/O au!, alpha zoro, omega luffy

🔗 https://archiveofourown.org/works/60278761

first of all HELLOOOO my favorite anon in the whole entire world, your feedback always makes me smile so much, my excitement opening my tumblr inbox and seeing paragraph upon paragraph from you had me bouncing around on my couch. ahem, i mean. thank you so much dear reader. patpat for you on the head.

the smut was actually 13k alone before i attacked it with my proof-read chainsaw LOL, so i trimmed the chapter up quite a lot, i think it makes it less droning (or maybe i was just in a very anti-horny mood when finishing and proofing this chapter OH WELL)

first id like to say that when you said in the end notes that you wished we could see it like the movie in ur head i kind of went "i Knew it" cuz ever since i picked up this fic (nearly a year ago... and have reread it so many times) i was just amazed at the way you describe locations. im an artist with a weakness for colors and every scene you bring us into has such clear... artistic colorgrading? not really sure what to call it in writing but it feels as if light sources and shadows and the depth of colors are really well captured. like a super pretty illustration, even if you can't see it. so in that regard it definitely feels like watching something (but in reading format - its suuuch a good experience).

the latest chapter is feeding us so well and i couldn't help but think the entire time that since this is one of The Big scenes, something we've been waiting for since very beginning and now we're getting there, and we've been waiting for it impatiently (i know i was.) that means the stakes were established so clearly. as someone who personally struggles with story structure (messy... all over the place...) that's so impressive to me. i know where we're headed, vaguely, but the slivers of knowledge i have only makes me more excited to see how it'll happen!!

all in all, extremely fun update, and that's me gushing about it in general terms and not going into specifics (though i do gotta say that luffy's sentiment at the end being "i should've been the alpha🙄🙄" cracked me up so bad) SO THANK U!!! HOPE THE EVENT YOURE PREPPING IS ALL FUN!

i've been holding onto this inbox for a while bc i love rereading it aughhgh, this is so so so sweet, thank you.

i'm so glad someone has noticed the vivid, movie-like quality i'm trying to achieve with this fic!! i know i say it often but i mourn not being more artistically inclined and good with color because i wish i could bring this to live as a full 4K colored animatic that runs for 4 hours long xD

but for real, thank you again for your lovely comment! chapter 7 is one of the first big climaxes of the story, and as i mentioned in the A/N of the chapter, the festival/dance scene specifically was one of the very first scenes i wrote for this almost a whole year and a half ago. everything has been branched out from there and plotted around it. i'm super proud of where it's gone and how clear the plot has lined out ahead in my brain.

luffy is such a fun character to write, especially where he's such a dominant personality and being stuck with his biology as an omega but not letting that stop him by any means in how he acts or how he is in the bedroom. his inner monologue is also very fun to work with as i'm writing, since you guys are left in the dark as you go along with zoro's POV for most of the scenes. hehehe.

ik ur majorly active on twt rather than tumblr but the straw page has a character limit </3

the recent update of as icarus loved the sun was so peak...! the luzo in there was an unexpected treat. i have no idea what sort of writer you are outside of this work, nor do i know you personally in any capacity — so it's a bit hard to express my thoughts in a way im sure can be understood. but between luffy's past, and the role handed to him based on his secondary gender, and even such an irrelevant thing as fandom tendency to stick to fixed positions due to certain interpretations of the dynamic, the most recent chapter has made me really happy. thank you!

ive been invested in the worldbuilding from the getgo, in how the events have been developing, and every time my expectations are absolutely exceeded. can't wait for the next chapter! :-)