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Ah, sorry for being MIA. Real life has been so busy for so long now and I really needed a break from social media---BUT I logged back into tumblr because I started working on a few ChrisMiyu fics for 2/2.

My WIPs look like this so far:

Actor Miyuki, Med School Chris...?

A College AU...?

A sexy fic...?

A Miyuki POV for my Yakuza AU...?

As you can see I'm not super confident about these WIPs. Lol I have no idea what I'll be able to actually finish, but I've missed these two. T.T

I might have actually managed to finish a WIP…

This is currently with my beta. All in all, it’s only about 5k words and half of it was already written and just sitting in a folder, but it was still a struggle to get done. I’m out of practice! 😭

For months now I've been bouncing from WIP to WIP. Maybe adding a sentence or two before closing the doc and opening a new one--only to repeat the process. It honestly felt like a fluke that I managed to finish the Comic Con AU.

Which is why I'm so surprised to find myself almost done with what could be a first chapter...? I've been working on a WIP I started for the Daiya Big Bang 2021. I scrapped it in favor of a new idea that would end up becoming devotion. Plot wise they're completely different, but tonally they're very similar.

My only problem is my outline for Chapter 2 looks like this:

Hi! I'm alive! My brain has been feeling like mush and I haven’t written anything in months. That being said...I do miss writing so I’m doing that thing where I start to go through all of my WIPs to see if there’s anything I want to try to finish and well...I stumbled across a few fics that I haven’t worked on in like four years...? 🤷‍♀️ Anyway...here are the WIPs I’m thinking about tackling:

Sequel to The Long Winter. Chris’ POV.

Sequel to Kiss with a Fist.

Sad, Moody Modern Hollywood Noir AU.

A little snippet from my upcoming contribution to Retired Third Years Week.

Jun’s sister is getting married and he sees her in her wedding dress for the first time.

I was horribly blocked on this fic until I decided to write about Jun’s sisters. They’re honestly my favorite.

This story is finished and with my Beta. (Yay!) It’ll be posted on Ao3 on October 3rd for the prompt: Future Fic / Where are they now?

1. Love Stories - The title is temporary (or is it??). Super chill, slice of life, no baseball AU featuring a ridiculous number of characters in loosely interconnected stories with at least 6 POVs. I hate it already. 😛 I’ve put it on hold so I can gather my thoughts and, you know, maybe make a loose outline...

2. a place to lay my head - Miyuki takes naps at Chris’ apartment. A simple idea that might hit 4k words...? The winner of the “Most Likely to Actually Get Finished from this List” award.

3. An Actors AU - Fun fact, this is probably the forth time I’ve tried to write an Actors AU. For whatever reason my brain just doesn’t want to. Anywho, this one starts with Chris trying to fix a copy machine so not off to a great start...

I’ve abandoned all of my WIPs (...again) in order to try to put something together for Retired Third Years week. I’m planning on re-sharing a couple of already posted fics and will probably have a new TetsuJun fic by then (...?). In an ideal world, I’d also have something for Chris, but...*sigh* we’ll see. For anything I’m re-sharing I’ll probably try to make pretty promos for them at least. Anyway here’s my tentative schedule:

October 3rd - Future Fic / Where are they now?: A new TetsuJun where Jun needs a date to his sister’s wedding and misunderstandings ensue. 

October 4th - Free Day: The Loudest Quiet. (I think this might only half count since only half of it takes place after Jun and Tetsu retire...)

October 6th - Picking a college / College! AU: Being Social. (A ChrisMiyu that features Tanba’s POV and the Third Years in a group chat.)