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for years, you have hopelessly pined for your best friend, sim jake. for years, you have seen him hopelessly pine for your older sister. each time you blow out your birthday candle or see a shooting star dart across the sky, you wish for him to love you back. but some things just aren’t meant to be. sometimes, even thousands of wishes cannot turn dreams to reality.

why did this turn so sad 😵‍💫😵‍💫 but yeah!! this was what i first thought of when i read the title :”)

A Lon Story’s website is now live, and so is the Patreon.

This is a science-plausible universe about our near and far possible futures.

The backstory has been in development since 2010, and the first installment, A Lon Beginning, takes place thousands of years from now, following a child looking for their mother through a weirdly wonderful world of our own making. 

The larger Lon Universe seeks to answer a number of questions:

What if, in trying to save the world, we ended up figuring out how to colonize the stars?

What would it take to send humanity to another star system?

What if a bunch of intersectional feminist geeks designed an android, gave it all their knowledge, and sent it off to make a planet?

Would the last generation of humanity LARP football in the broken Tacoma dome?

What might it take to teach an android how to love?

How much fun would it be to live in a world where Arthur C. Clarke’s third rule is very much in effect?

A Lon Beginning is a Different Kind of Kid Story

While the bulk of the series is going to be aimed at teens and up, the first story is surprisingly kid-friendly for a dystopian post-apocalyptic future. (Mostly because it takes place after all of the worst stuff, and provides a child’s-eye entry into the story.) Each of the seven chapters of the first story will have been read aloud multiple times before posting, and it works really well as bedtime reading for kids as young as five. The really special thing about this is that the main character is a nonbinary child, and that is not what the story is about. 

There will never be a big “reveal” about Kel’s gender. They are nonbinary and that is that. Down the line, in other stories, it will become apparent why Kel has been raised nonbinary from birth, but it is not a plot point of this story. For me, as a nonbinary writer, with nonbinary kids, it was important to me that they have that.

Very few of the characters in this universe (and none in the first story) are white, for a huge number of reasons. This includes Kel, whose genetic background is complicated, and whose culture is necessarily unique. 

A Group Effort

@teasugarsalt, @rhysiana, @lysikan, @allmydokkuns, @bonehandledknife  and many others have spent so many hours helping me, listening to me ramble and reading my incoherent pile of notes. @camillo1978 was deeply involved in my process for developing Kel as a character. As I post more, I’ll talk more about the people who helped me develop each part of the story. 

And the best boost to getting this up right now came from Craig Burrows, whose luminous photographs gave me the last bit I needed to really put the website and Patreon together.

In the long run, I hope that this does become a true community effort. As I get more chapters up, I’m hoping to get artists engaged and on board to expand this into a multimedia project. My Patreon goals reflect that. The more people we get on board, the more artists I can pay.

Nitty Gritty

Right now, all actual content is on the Patreon, but this will change as more of it is posted. There are three posts up at the moment. Two of them are public (and free), and one of them is set to the $1 tier. Tier rewards are not entirely tied to the posting system, so please look at the higher reward options, even if there are not yet posts there.

I will be working on putting up more advance chapters for higher level tiers later today. My goal is that by the weekend, people subscribing at the $10 level will have access to the entire first story (7 chapters), with most of it becoming available to lower levels by December 1. One chapter per week will be going public.

A day or two after each chapter is public on Patreon, I will be posting them everywhere (the site is Wordpress, and I’ll be using SNAP to broadcast to Twitter and Tumblr, possibly Dreamwidth, and possibly Facebook.)

Rosé: Then get out of my lap.

Photo: 

Username on AO3 or FF.net: Jenrose (AO3)

URL on Tumblr: jenroses.tumblr.com

Name: For writing everyone knows me as Jenrose. My website is literally jenrose.com

Nickname: Jen, Jenrose

Date started writing YOI fanfiction: Late December 2016

Preferred Genres in Writing: Post-canon continuation, romance and fluff with a bit of queer political angst (how much angst is probably a matter of perception, I come at it from within the community.) I write Victuuri.

Works: The Translations On Ice series

About:

I’ve been writing fanfic for about 20 years, but first started writing when I was 9 years old. I’m 45 now. Early this year I passed the million word mark. I am a functionalist and a storyteller. I write to communicate, and try to make my writing transparent to the story I want to tell. I do tend to know roughly where a story is going when I’m writing, but I do a lot of “pantsing” to get there. I only write when the characters are in my head and clamoring to tell a story: I try to facilitate rather than direct, so it often doesn’t really feel like the story comes from me, so much as from the characters.

Outside of writing, I’m a disabled, queer mom of three kids, living on the left coast and trying to survive the current administration. I am a survivor and activist.

Outside of the Yuri on Ice fandom, I am also currently active in the Check Please fandom, and have written in several others. I am also working on an original work of fiction, and will be launching a Patreon for that soon.

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Willing to Beta Read anything having to do with sex, parenting, birth, babies, breastfeeding, and chronic illness for realism.

Age: 45

Experience in beta reading: Yes, but I prefer not to do general beta reading at this point. I’m looking to improve the quality and plausibility of birth and medical scenes.

Works beta read before: Not in this fandom. I was a professional editor for a number of years for a professional journal, and have done informal beta reading for other fandoms. I am really best suited to, “I’ve never had a baby and want to write a birth: how can I make this more plausible?” as I don’t have time for beta reading long works.

Preferences in Fics to Beta read: You should have a goal of writing something remotely plausible. (And yeah, I’m willing to read ABO and help make it more plausible.) I have zero general interest in mafia/assassin aus, but will beta specific scenes for them.

Reasons for beta reading/wanting to be a beta reader: I get tired of birth being written like they show it on tv. I’ve seen something like 18 babies born, including 3 of my own, and have a professional background as a doula and childbirth educator, including years of study in the area of maternal health.

Jenrose, Translations: Elongations