Me: Okay I’ve got this fic all outlined and am excited to start the various POVs and angst so here we go! Grace angst chapter, and now Carl angst chapter, I’ll bookend them with vague Simon heavy whump POVs and pepper in the worldbuilding so things slowly get more and more unveiled. Everything is going according to plan and nothing has derailed this 5k in, this is great-
Fic: give Carl a dog
Me: Who said that? That’s not how this chapter is supposed to go!
Fic: Carl needs a dog
Me: There’s literally no dog character planned for this fic and there never has been
Fic: Dog is here now
Me: OH MY GOD














