#aocc

Ooof just found this in the askbox. Tumblr never notified me!

So, I think, there may be some additional chapters in the Google drive, but I could be wrong. There’s a lot of stuff in the Google drive. Even so, I know things dry up somewhere in the 60s.

But also if you check the AoCC tag, you’ll find recollections of what TMF said about how she wanted to end the story.

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Hello! So today, I received a nice a very nice message from @brittanyye regarding some correspondence she had with TMF regarding AoCC when it was initially discontinued, thanking her for the fic and expressing disappointment, but also understanding.

TMF’s response is as follows:

Aw, hey, thanks very much. For what it’s worth, AOCC ends with Quinn and Finn switched back, heading to New York for college, and Rachel vowing to never speak to either of them again because she’s found out the truth. The second story in the series then picks up 3 years down the line with Rachel finally cracking and needing answers from them on why they did what they did, and what it meant. This leads to a slow build of a relationship (of kinds) between Rachel and Quinn, but the more I thought about this, the more I realized that I could never, ever actually write this into a happy ending of the kind that fandom desires, at which point I thought it better for my own health that I just left it where it was. This was very much not the kind of story that fan readers generally would’ve been into because there was no happy ever after to be found in it, but I felt very pressured to force one, and nobody likes feeling that way about a hobby, y'know? :) 

Thanks so much for your enthusiasm. And, hey, I don’t know if you care, but I’ve taken some of the main principles of the bodyswap story and am writing an original (but very different) project with them over at eightsandtens.tumblr.com - no obligation, obviously, read only if you’re interested (and maybe start in a month when I have some more stuff up!).

That said, the Eights and Tens tumblr page is defunct, but you can find what is archived from it in the Google Drive.

Shelby & Beth return, causing Rachel to freak out and QiF to click with her in ways Finn could not have; FiQ comes out to Judy, Santana becomes a real friend to Q; post-swap Rachel finally realizes what was going on, punches Quinn, says she never wants to see her again; Quinn either wants to or tries to kill herself again, Sam talks her through it; the end was just flat-out depressing for all parties. (this was all posted in an outline on tumblr at some point btw!)

Fantastic!  Thank you for sharing what you remember. :)

I remember that outline and that's where most of what I remember came from, but, as we can see, I couldn't remember all of it.  Now, if only someone had saved that outline in its entirety....dang.

Hey! Did Tumfs ever write about what might have happened in AoCC? I just finished rereading it and wow it left off at really tense time. I remember reading that she initially intended to have 3 parts to the story, but I'm hazy on any/all details (if there were details)...