Awww, thank you for the well wishes!! xx.  I feel terrible that I haven’t been as around lately, it feels like when I do get some tumblr time during the day I feel rushed and never reblog anything, I should remedy that this weekend.  And it’s not a bother at all!  Tokyo Drift will never be forgotten, and it is still in drafts - it’s just a matter of having the time to make it more than that?  

Lololol ah yes, Stylan, aka when we totally cashed in on the shame gland-ectomies that we had years ago and wrote about them banging nonstop.  (It felt important to the story! - our excuse, always)  But ANYWAY, in answer to your questions:

1) It’s....coming!  After making so many promises previously I’ve learned my lesson because life happens a lot in this current reality and I have no real timeline on completion?  I will say that I was able to write some of it a couple of weekends ago, which is a good sign!  Plus, even though Harry and Stevie Nicks blew up our spot and acted out part of Tokyo over the weekend, it still was wildly motivating in terms of finishing stuff up, so I feel better about getting it done. :)  Everyone who still cares is a saint for being so patient about this, I hate leaving things unfinished but I never thought it would be this long. <3

I did not know, and I would say that I need more information until I could make a call on how I feel about it?  Is it a fic within the universe that @megalong and myself created, or just a fic where they’re a duo?  There’s a difference there.  

If we’re being entirely honest, if it is the latter, even having them be a duo CALLED Stylan is a little...I’m not sure it sits well with me, personally.  Obviously I/we are very well aware that Stylan as a shorthand for those two idiots being a musical duo has reached beyond just “fic” 1D fandom, but there’s a little bit of a difference there with regard to that being their name in another fic?  Or even being used as a shorthand FOR a fic where that’s the premise.  If it’s entirely divorced from our Stylan universe, then I don’t see why you would want to still use our ridiculous portmanteau since it is rooted in an entirely different fic universe.  

First of all, it’s TERRIBLE just how long it took me to answer this (see also: people asking for a rec list I swear that’s next on my list this week), but I do want to say that I got this lovely message on my birthday and that was a lovely little gift, so thank you!! xx

Second, no pressure at all - there’s a few other messages I have about it and I’ll get to those as well but I wanted to at least answer something about it because while it blows my mind constantly, I know that people do still care!  I’m not going to lie, there hasn’t been much work done on Stylan 3: Tokyo Drift because of a lot of reasons, and most of that is entirely on me!  I hate to be ~vague~ but you know, life happens sometimes, unfortunately. :(  Plus the world is on fire, etc etc.  

ALL THAT BEING SAID, I do fully intend on finishing it because as a terrible terrible perfectionist, I couldn’t go back on a promise like that or leave something unfinished.  (Plus, oh my god, you don’t even know how much work goes into our outlines - that is not going to waste on my watch.)  After a less than ideal start to the year, I am thinking things will be a little easier going forward.  So we’ll see!!  I can’t say when or even if it will be soon, in the interest of full transparency, but that is my hope.  

It’s coming along!  I sincerely apologize for not having more for you than that - I really wish that I could say something like, “WELL GUESS WHAT IT’S HAPPENING ANY SECOND!!” but I honestly can’t and at this point I also don’t want to falsely pinpoint a hopeful time frame.  It sucks.  Again, not for lack of wanting to finish ASAP but there are only so many hours in the day, and the degree of busy hard stuff that’s been flung our way for most of this year has not been conducive to our usual relatively speedy writing process.  Lol I had a crazy 16 hour day of meetings yesterday and I feel like the most appropriate response would be, “it’s still on the roadmap for 4Q but this is liable to change at any point.”  

Okay first of all, GOOD WAY TO AVOID THE HEAT.  This weekend was like a real live action Dante’s Inferno, I spent it lying on @megalong‘s couch with a perma glass of sangria drunkenly yelling about Nathan Adrian, a perfect man, for hours because the second anyone stepped even a toe outside their body liquefied.

BUT ANYWAY, this is actually relevant to your question, because after that solid showing of us screaming about our storied Olympic swimmer history for hours we transitioned to yelling about Stylan 3 and really piecing together those last bits of plot.  Can I preface this by saying we feel like massive failures for taking forever?  Life, man.  It takes and it takes and it takes.  But we keep writing anyway, and are COMMITTED to finishing it, and are actually really excited for what we have planned and the themes we’re going to try and work in?  Hopefully it’ll be a satisfying conclusion.  And I’m not going to be a dick like last time and give an possible completion date because sometimes things happen and then five months later you’re like “ohhhhh you gotta stop promising things you can’t deliver”.  Either way, we are chipping away at it, and I just opened the outline to see like...what possible tidbits I could share that wouldn’t be massively spoilery.   I can say that it does start with Harry’s birthday again?  This is...am I making it sound appealing at all?  I really don’t want to ruin anything for all five people who still care, lol - I can say that possible things included are: a tour, a party, a big trip, a big ship, a haircut, and a letter.  OOOOoooooooOOOOooooooo.  I know, I’m really making it sound great right now.