What To Do About These Supers
ugh help i'm impulsive and just speedread superheroes/villains trilogy i wrote 10-to-7 years ago that i can do absolutely NOTHING with in the trad pub world because i built the whole fucking concept around a super plague in licherally the two (2) years before COVID.
like. book 2 is called Pestilence, and it's about all the supers across the country falling violently, uncontrollably ill (because i wanted to write about superheroes and supervillains in a story where the unpowered people in their orbit had to save the day)(literally, that's where my ENTIRE CONCEPT CAME FROM)(fuck COVID). book 3 is really Long-Pestilence: The Aftermath (And Also An Attempt at Apocalypse, Because Villains). book 1 is Villains Are More Functional Than Heroes When It Comes To Teamwork. all three are episodic and large ensemble casts with a few cycling core POVs.
unfortunately, i love these characters so fucking much, and i had a great time with my imperfect but fairly solid nano drafts even a decade later, and i feel like i can do pretty much nothing but shelve them, because of the COVID situation.
or.
i could, theoretically, tidy them up very slightly, and post them on A03, if that's really a thing that people do with original fiction? (that's real, right?)
i know tumblr loves hitting buttons, and i want interest gauging, i guess. like i can reread them a zillion times in my own house and subject my friends to infinite snaps of The Good Bits, OR i could Share Them With The World, which is scary but could be delightful.
here is a short story i wrote in the same world, courtesy of that prompt about villain wrangling that was circulating around the same time i was digging into this world. (maddy and sonos are both key players in the trilogy. sonos is one of my all-time favorites ever i think.)
my question for you, fellow denizen of our beloved hellsite, is:
do i publish the superheroes/villains trilogy on AO3?
yes! i'm so interested!!
no! no one cares!
no! save it in case you change your trad/indie pub mind!
secret fourth option, which i shall provide to you in the notes!
