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((im liTERALLY GOING TO CRY IM TOO TIRED FOR THIS

Yup, been on my dash a few times.

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hi there

OH i actually have a cool story about an Allison

She’s my sister’s friend more than she is mine, but she has become a pretty close friend of mine by extension over the years.  And this started because I discovered she’s an artist and she loves South Park, and her favorite character is Kenny. (mine’s Craig, but Kenny is a close second… and Kyle is like such a close third he sometimes switches places with Kenny. but anyway)

So I had started working on a South Park fanfiction at the time of this discovery, and it was about Kenny.  I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of a fan-made insert character who DIDN’T steal the spotlight and make the story revolve around them.  It is a FAN work, after all, it should be about the canon characters.  So in a fit of inspiration, I decided to throw her into the story and make it from her viewpoint.  Because hey, after all, just about everyone in South Park is based on a real person.  I figured an insert character would only really be fitting if they were based on a real person.  So Allison became my narrator and told a story about Kenny being Mysterion and being super badass, and it actually got really dark and kind of terrifying wow

Well, Allison ended up being Kenny’s girlfriend by the end (predictably, because I’m a dickweed and my insert characters always take over somehow).  And then it turned into a high school AU, and she still got with Kenny.  But as I kept writing and developing, the high school story moved away from Kenny and Allison and moved toward Craig/Thomas and Stan/Kyle and their tumultuous struggles with accepting their queerness and stuff, with Kenny and Allison being the friends who alternately talk them through it and poke merciless fun at them.

And then

The simple fanfiction grew so large and all-encompassing and expansive that I had no choice but to cave to my desire to publish it.  I switched some names around, changed the location, and made it a narrative of its own.  It became Perennial as the Grass, the novel I’m writing now.

Allison’s still in it.

YEAH... YOU'RE RIGHT, FINE.

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...I GOT THIS YESTERDAY, AND I DON'T HAVE THE FAINTEST FUCKING IDEA WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.