#speak low

💕When will you be finishing Melt With You?

That’s a great question! As a two-person collaboration between two busy bees living in different places, we don’t always get a chance to write together regularly. We have NOT given up on the fic (especially since we have about 75k of later chapters written) but we go through busier periods where it is harder to collaborate. Please remember we are two adults with busy lives, limited free time, and only so much writing energy! But I promise we are slowly yet surely cooking up something delicious for you all 🍜

🪲When will you be finishing No More, No Less?

Honestly, during my busy senior year, I just touched the fic for the first time in months! Although I don’t know when the next update will be, it should be up by the end of March. If it’s not up by then you have permission to bully me in my DMs and Inbox.

✨What about Defying the Stars?

That project has taken the back burner until I catch up on MWY and NMNL, but I do plan to finish it someday. I also need to reread everything I’ve written and Romeo and Juliet before I get back to it, so that may take a bit 🧍 But alas, auxtor’s writing is not over!

💋Can I make fanart of your fics?

Yes, yes, yes! I always love to see art inspired by my fics and I’m sure @yesterdayandtodayy feels the same when it comes to Melt With You.

🐇May I print it and share it with friends?

As long as my username is on it and you don’t pass it off as your own work, I don’t care what you do with it!

😭Are you still alive? Are you still writing?

Always am, always will. The depths of depression and the hell that is college have taken a lot from me but I am always writing. Some of my projects are outside of fanfiction but I promise I will send good news y’all’s way when there is any.

I love you all💗

this has probably been done before but i HAD to

shoutout to @auxctor because i was thinking about neil’s powerpoint from speak low and how we never got to see which shakespeare character each of the poets were so here’s what i think 

note: i only used plays i actually know so if you know characters from another play that would fit better i’m sorry

OKAY let’s start with 

neil

hamlet from... hamlet

this one was probably the most obvious one besides charlie and todd. come on hamlet is basically just an overdramatic depressed theatre kid with daddy issues... THAT IS NEIL like it just makes sense, i mean come on. i feel like i shouldn’t even have to explain this one.

todd

horatio from hamlet

are we surpised? literally just an anxious gay who wants nothing more than to support his boyfriend (and let’s be real horatio WOULD be a poet) and when their boyfriend is gone they resign themselves to tell his story for the rest of their lives, COME ON (also were hamlet and horatio roommates at wittenburg? cause if no, they are now) 

charlie

mercutio from romeo and juliet

okay this one was easy, the best friend who is just there to provide witty commentary and gay chaos... yep! that’s charlie. look me in the eyes and tell me he wouldn’t tell his hopeless romantic best friend that he was full of shit, come on. and also he would be the impulsive little shit who decides that he needs to fucking fight tybalt! (also shoutout once again to @auxctor for making this a reality in defying the stars on ao3 which you should all read) 

knox

the duke from twelfth night 

a hopeless romantic? check! obsessed with one girl who doesn’t want him? check! doesn’t realize there’s someone else who’s in love with him and been there the whole time? check! (*ahem* charlie as viola *ahem*) i mean it just makes sense! and let’s be real knox would say some shit like “if music be the food of love, play on.” (but he also would make a great armado from love’s labour’s lost because let’s be real, he is just a bumbling fool in love who would write love letters no one understands)

cameron

katherine from the taming of the shrew

cameron was hard to figure out. my first instinct was angelo from measure for measure, but cameron is SO MUCH BETTER than angelo so no. but it hit me: katherine! she’s technically the antagonist of the play, but she shouldn’t be. she’s just a woman trying to live her life how she believes she should. is she annoying? yes! but that doesn’t mean she should be villainized. cameron is the same way, lots of people try to frame him as one of the anatgonists of the movie but he’s not. he’s just a boy trying to do what he believes is right and what he has been told is right. is he annoying? yes! but like katherine, he shouldn’t be villainized for it. so yes, i stand by this choice. 

meeks and pitts

the princess and rosaline from love’s labour’s lost

(Extract from Speak low)

@auxctor

Soooo yeah, please please reply if you wanna see these with your own pride flags- just tell me what they are and I'll happily do it!

Here's mine lol: