#housebird

overall, i was hooked INSTANTLY- i love your characterisation, especially for jeremy 1.0, and the repurposing of lyrics to a repeated dialogue was one of my favourite bits (also!!! your rewriting of lyrics to fit the fic and to serve as a chapter summary?? that was SO clever i loved guessing the song they came from and humming them before i started the new chapter….)

before you mentioned TGWDLM, i got the vibes - the whole “everyone you know is slowly being infected with this Thing” was written so legitimately scary to me. like it was Tense. turn a corner and yup, they got squipped. oh so did your other classmate. yep, and them too. i’m a big fan of TGWDLM, and i LOVED the apocalypse feel in OOIM; like yeah, they’re trying to stop the Horror, but to do that they also have to Survive, and the odds of that happening aren’t looking too good either. literally every chapter i was screaming JEREMY!!! SQUEREMY!!!!! GO CHECK ON MICHAEL!!! PLEASE!!!!

(all the talk of squeremy being michael’s meat shield…….. houuuuh. i knew something had to be coming but it still HURT!!!)

i just think that this fic was done INCREDIBLY well. i enjoyed it so so so much!!! (the ending i cried a little at!!) thank you for writing it!!!

i’m in the process of reading the other fics you linked in OOIM, but i wanted to let you know how much i loved yours :-)

Oh my goodness. OK. I'm reading through this ask slowly to savor it.

Thank you! I wouldn't mind writing Jeremy 1.0 sometime (or Christine, who is fun to write) but the opportunity hasn't come up. I kind of sandwiched in the "talking to themself" chapter because I wanted a little reminder of their roots. They can still do a great impression of both Jeremy and the SQUIP if anyone asks. The only person they've asked has said no. :( :'(

I've been surprised at the great reaction to those lyric changes. They're fun but I know I came up with them on a whim at the last second, so it's nice seeing folks enjoy them.

I started rereading that chapter today, and I think your own writing will go through a cycle of "this is brilliant" -> "i still love this" -> "oh no it's cringe!!" -> don't look at it for a year -> "this is brilliant" Sadly, that chapter is at the cringe stage for me right now. I feel like the pacing was all over the place. But it was supposed to be a single date, and Michael is the one who made it a multi-scene production.

In my writing drafts, I have a running tally of who and who isn't SQUIPped and whether this is common knowledge yet or not lol.

😂 Sadly a pretty un-Jeremy-ish thing for them to do, to ignore Michael that long (if only because of their history making that so touchy).

I have an open offer for whenever I haven't updated the fic in 2 months that, if you want to, you can message me for plot spoilers. At some point I was going to just post the plot summary and leave it as a deadfic (because I always hoped authors would do just that, if the fic would never be finished anyway)... Yet, 4 or 5 years later, here we are. I'll write more at some point. Hard to tell when that point will be though. I wrote like 40k in a month and then the rest has been in random bits and pieces since then.

OUHHH CUTIES ...

wendy ... adore her watermelon clothes . fr a shame that the took away the scarves ... in my mind shes siblings with gen and eunice : ) gen left then eunice realized maybe she should join to keep an eye on gen and wendy came with

SHUCKS... THANKA YOU... funny enough i already answered 11 for all three a while back but i'll definitely answer the other!!

41) How do they feel about children?

Buck would have you believe he hates kids, but really he's more just very unpracticed with and unsure of how to deal with them (at least he thinks so - he's actually pretty okay with them, particularly slightly older kids like Minnie, if he's not overthinking it too badly). Between his upbringing and current lifestyle he doesn't run into kids too often, especially not in situations where he needs to like, interact with them extensively or be responsible for them, so if he is put in that situation he is SUPER out of his element.

Davey, on the other hand, loves kids and is super comfortable around them. Like, he's just got Natural Dad Instincts. (In some ways he's a little selfishly happy Minnie decided to Assert Herself into his and Buck's life, because it's a taste of having a family he wouldn't otherwise get to have in his current Villain Lifestyle. he can't help but Dad that kid a little bit, and he'd really like it if either Minnie figures out his and buck's Deal/Buck tells her outright so he can be a Proper Uncle.)