#katria

Do you ship it?

Submitted by @thishumanformislimiting

@myfairkatiecat @the-way-astray

(i have no idea what either of you look like tbh)

okay, fair that you didn't know katie has blue eyes, but why do i have purple eyes. i feel like. that is not the conclusion one would jump to when trying to guess someone's eye color

also why are we divorced twice over what is this. fun fact: me and my irl friends googled how many times you can divorce and remarry the same person and it's completely unlimited; the government will never step in and go "bitch we saw what happened the last x number of times you tried this". so we could do this for all eternity, in theory. so that's a thing i know . . . don't ask about what irl lore made me google this. it's complicated

thank you for making me taller than katie. this is much appreciated

presenting to your askboxes (this is a dual pov fic and a version of this has gone out to stria too), with worldbuilding inspired by "the other woman" (other woman anon if you're out there know that i'm thinking about your fic.....) this fic! (wording is a bit clunkier in stria's version sorry)

note that this is au to real life keepblr events and their chronology. for the most part. (matters for this version more because katie's response to the rant precedes most of the posts cited here in real life. whatever. for the sake of katria deal with it.)

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Agree to Disagree (Katie's Version) [Part One]

Tumblr user the-way-astray, otherwise known as Stria Sixteen: Katie's new acquaintance from the Keeper Forum. It was funny how you met the most interesting sorts of people when you walked around alone. Katie remembered her vaguely from her lurking days too. It had been good to see her talking to people and proclaiming her opinions, and she'd been a good conversationalist—analysis-minded, passionate, and willing, evidently, to swap Tumblrs.

Katie, of course, being charmed and fascinated by such an individual, decided to check out her blog. Which, she realised when she clicked open the read-more to her pinned post, had been somewhat of a mistake.

For right there, in front of her, readily available to read through, was a veritable wall of Stria's anti-Keefe posts.

Now, Katie was by and large a quite tolerant person. That she hadn't met as many passionate Keefe haters as she'd (regrettably) met passionate Fitz haters, was more to do with the composition of the fandom itself rather than with her trying to avoid haters. But here was one: a Keefe hater with posts labelled things like "keefe rant" and "thoughts on the relationship between keefe's trauma and actions" and "sokeefe, from a writing standpoint, reeks of insecurity". Many things, even from the title itself, Katie agreed with! Keefe was insecure, definitely! Thinking about the relationship between Keefe's trauma and actions was one of her favorite things! In fact, she was the one who always found herself reminding people that Keefe was her flawed pookie, not her perfect pookie who had done nothing wrong, ever. But she could hardly imagine someone using the same things which endeared Keefe to her so as a reason for hating him.

She opened the rant in a new tab—now, she had to know.

She was hit with a great wall of disclaimers.

The first thing Katie noticed was the emphasis on it being subjective. Stria—Stria who had seemed firmly opinionated to Katie even just meeting her for the first time—naturally had subjective opinions on Keefe. She hated his humor subjectively, and emphasized over and over that the rant was a rant. Katie found it—along with the rant's frankly terrifying length—intriguing.

She'd never felt like she'd met her match before. Her love of Keefe vs. Stria's hatred. Both, no doubt, interesting.

And her bold declaration, "Feel free to pick fights with me or tell me that I'm not being fair. Feel free to counter every single one of my arguments," was practically a dare to Katie's inner debater.

She typed out a response in the replies, and waited.

A minute later, Stria's response came:

"lmfao that's fine. debate away.

Katie grinned. Debate away she would.

And when she did, neither Stria, nor anyone else, would be ready.

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and thus begins the tale of the duel spirit mutuals. i'll make a part two if you would like one :)

anything quoted from stria's rant/pinned post/blog can be found @the-way-astray at the time of sending this ask in every referenced post (so rant disclaimer and pinned post). credit for that is stria's.

the way my heart stopped when i realized this was about my response to her post cause the layers of "i know you said this isn't your argument but I'm both claiming that it secretly is and also refuting it" that my caffeine-fueled brain attempted to transmit to stria before i posted that are actively obscuring the point lmao

that being said this is very well written. It's almost reading like my cognate's work, tbh, though she isn't online. I'm... intruiged by the next part but also very, very, very scared. I want to see stria's version

The Aetherium Forge. ~Talviel