#maieisn

I'm a new-ish follower. I've recently rekindled my (very repressed) love for Clexa. Those two have me on a chokehold. But alas, the friends I've met from here have long since moved on from that era of my life - their lives (reasonably so, it was very #traumatique). I stumbled upon your fics (almost as soon as I stopped repressing lol) and I just wanted to say that I'm in awe. In a span of... 4 months, I've devoured your writing - both in AO3 and all (yes all of the tags of all of the fics here on tumblr). I agree with that one comment (or was it an ask, not sure) that I read in passing on how you write very natural conversations. Your writing is captivating. You encapsulate, weave and evolve these characters we love into your stories very effectively. I remember you saying that you just borrow plots, use existing characters, but you have deeply made them your own. Nothing is really 100% zero-based and original. (I don't mean to invalidate you, I just hope you weren't downplaying how amazing your writing is -- but if that wasn't the case, I'm sorry for assuming). Writing fics is often thankless so thank you thank you thank you. Reading and re-reading your stories bring joy to my life. Catching up on the characters with your answers to asks about any of them is a treat. I hope you get the capacity to continue writing. I hope your health improves, and continue to improve. I hope you get to live your best life. Okay bye :x

This is the full range of emotions I felt reading this 🥹

Genuinely, thank you. Thank you for taking the time to read everything and to leave this insanely sweet message. I'm so not great at accepting praise or anything even remotely positive 😅 so bear with me me when I over-criticize myself and writing, but know I appreciate the support more than I can say. Honestly people like you are what keeps fandom fun, especially in a fandom that has shrunk over so many years (sad, but understandable). I'm so glad you came back to the fandom for however long you're here, cuz for me this fandom has been such a bright spot in some really shitty years. And it's because of all the people like you, who read and reach out and interact. Messages like this are what keeps fandom feeling like a community, and I just hope you know that every writer and artist appreciates you as much as you appreciate them. Myself very much included.

I’M BACK!!! Nah, beyond repeated mental breakdowns nothing major happened in the month I was away :P JK, they were only minor. I was actually super productive.

BUT I DO HAVE TO KNOW since Ramona also STILL didnt know after the 4year thing… I don’t if I just missed it—- what happened after Ramona went back? How did Oona navigate Ramona being back, and Annie leaving. When Annie left, did Ramona also leave? Because if Oona was miserable, surely Ramona would notice? Or because they broke up before she left, they weren’t really speaking? It’s just that tiny blip and gap that I am kind of confused with.

Should I just tell y'all what happens since I know I'm not gonna clean up all this shit I've written? Because the basic gist is that they're both FUCKING STUPID lol. This is what happens: Annie left because she immediately assumes Oona regrets cheating on her gf. But Oona didn't. Oona actually spent the day thinking how the fuck she was going to break up with Tamsin. Oona just left because she was INSANELY late for work. Ran out basically. Stopped home just to put not pajamas on. Ran back out to work. She was home for like five whole seconds and just forgot to take her phone from where she'd left it charging the night before. So Annie leaves the island without saying anything. Again. Oona finds out when Ellis mentions it after he comes back from flying Annie back to the city. Oona is PISSEDDDDD. Now she assumes Annie regrets it, will sell the island, is never coming back. Out of spite she impulsively proposes to Tamsin. That night. No ring planned or nothing. Just…we should get married. And Tamsin says yes. They start planning the wedding right away. Oona wants to get married fucking ASAP. How does Annie find out? She sees every one of their mutual friends congratulating Oona and Tamsin on their engagement online. Literally like...the next day after they spent all night fucking lol. And Annie is like FUCK.THIS.BITCHHHHHHHH so she doubles down on San Francisco, takes the job, moves there.

Hold on at least let me dig up the conversation when they see each other next because I did write it out. I'm still unclear on what it is that brings Annie back to the island months later, but she does come back. Duh. I just have a few different ideas as to why and haven't landed on one. But anyway...she comes back...six days before the wedding lol. So this is a piece of that scene where they see each other again for the first time:

“And you waited until six days before my wedding?”

“I didn’t know when your wedding was.”

“You knew I was engaged.”

“Yes.”

“You could’ve called.”

“I don’t have your number.” Oona laughs bitterly at the excuse. That doesn't stop Annie from pressing further. “You proposed the day I left.”

“So?”

“You proposed because I left.”

“I proposed because I want to marry her.”

“You decided that the same day we had sex?”

Oona takes a step toward her. Glares at her.

“You're a fucking idiot.”

“I’m the idiot?”

“Yes!”

“I woke up and you were gone! I figured you regretted what happened. I didn't want to cause any issues for you so I left.”

“I was three hours late for work!”

“I didn’t know that!”

"This island isn't that big, Annie. There's only so many places you I could've been. You could've found me had you wanted to."

"And you had my number on that form. You could've just fucking texted me to tell me where you were."

“My phone was sitting on my fucking nightstand!”

“How was I supposed to know that?”

“You could’ve waited instead of fucking disappearing!”

“And you could’ve at least left a note!”

They're morons but they're MY morons lol