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Throwback to Ethan and Becca coming face to face on the dance floor two years after she left in For All The Lies. A commission I won way back when by @juliaraeart and posting solo for @openheartfanart​ tope challenge week 3!

FATL  |  What If  |  OH Fic  |  Flatmate  |  Fairytale  |  DWHAF  |  Tragically Twenty  |  Handful of Lovers  |  Stories for Songs  |  TWC Fic

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Becca never really got a good look at him the first two times they met. In all fairness, she was assessing the best ways to end the conversation. 

Now he’s standing just a few steps across from her and she can really see him. The dark eyes that aren’t quite brown, aren’t really deep green either. Flecks of blonde in his chestnut hair highlighted by the sun, framing his face. It’s longer than... Well it’s longer than she realized. Not that it’s a deal-breaker, it’s just that he looks nothing like... 

And he has a svelte figure - only broader than her in the shoulders. But not lanky, no. There’s a casual coolness about him that just makes her want to smile - as awkward as this meeting is. 

“Ready to go?” Haiden pulls her back to the present. 

Becca takes one last sweep - to the makeshift snack bouquet in his hands and back to meet his eyes. 

“Yeah.” 

She doesn’t hold his gaze long before she starts walking.  

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Hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely holiday! This week I want to share a very very rough (and more than 6 sentences) draft of the FATL Prequel I’ve been noodling about for a little bit.

The passage below the cut takes place after MC has given up her position at Edenbrook in favor of another opportunity and putting some distance between her and Ethan after their fallout. This prequel will tell the story of how she meets her fiancé. 

Enjoy! (and let me know your thoughts 😬)

eeeeeeep thank you pola my love for this 💕 For requesting the fic and indulging me now. FATL is my magnum opus 

“Are you happy?”

This line kills me every time. 

He’s resolute. All Ethan has ever wanted and could have ever asked for is her happiness - is for that goddamn radiant and infectious smile to permanently be fixed in her features. He thought he’d never see that smile again. It doesn’t matter if he’s the one who doesn’t get to place the smile back in its rightful place. It doesn’t matter that his life choices sent her away from him. If she’s happy, he’ll be okay. He has no other choice. 

Okay so the idea for this fic was two people who loved each other once coming together and accepting the fact that the universe had other plans for them. They still love each other but there’s nothing they can do. They’re happy with how life turned out even if it meant they weren’t meant to be. 

This line was closure. In many senses of the word. 

flashback friday: send me the title or chapter of a fic i wrote and i’ll choose my favorite line and why i wrote it

“Downcast” Creator Clint Stoker Prepping New Sci-Fi Comic “FATL” | #comicbooks #FATL #scifi #comics #indiecomics

Independent comic book writer and Downcast creator Clint Stoker is preparing to launch his next graphic novel, FATL (pronounced “fatal”). Written by Stoker and illustrated by Charlie Snogans (Jawbreakers – GØD-K1NG), Flynn’s Alien Termination and Logistics (aka F.A.T.L.) is a new sci-fi book intended to launch via Indiegogo later in 2020.

Here’s the plot synopsis taken from the FATL pre-launch pa…