ty ty!!! and there is more to come <3

highly considering posting the some things never change prequel! i always intended that if i ever did post it, it would take place like a year before the original and be a lot more of a lighthearted piece (as well as a steamier piece lol).

the reason i’ve kind of been holding it close to my chest is bc i’m not entirely sure that i’ve figured out its thematic/emotional core. but i guess the theme of the entire canon, with this story of neteyam and this particular reader MC, is uncertainty and restraint and rebellion.

Secondly can we get a part 2 of it please????🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾

tysm!!

and hmmmm i feel like the mild uncertainty of the ending is kind of integral to its strength as a narrative. like just the entire process of coming of age is so uncertain and so unexpected. you ask yourself at the end of reading “are they going to make it?” and you know the answer is yes but you still have to worry a bit.

as prep for writing some things never change i created very rudimentary drafts of other core life events that neteyam and our reader went through both before and after the events of some things never change. that is to say, i know what happens to them and what they’ve been through, but i only came up with that as a means for me to write some things never change as best as i can, as a very critical snippet of their lives that the audience gets to see.

i think you can infer a lot about our main characters from the 6 thousand-something words you know them from.