Gronlandic Edit

Writing blog for @outofsync on Ao3

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hiii I use this primarily as a writing blog. I do lurk and check messages regularly, though

tag directory:

#fic: sleeping habits (anything relating to my fic)

#oneshot (oneshot writing)

#art (includes both my art and things i've commissioned)

where to find me:

ao3 (outofsync)

bsky (send me a message)

(as a general note i love commissioning art of my fics, so if you have commissions open, please message me and let me give you my money)

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Re-writes

I've rewritten most of sleeping habits. I had it hidden on AO3 for a few months while I did this, but it's back up, now, at least partially. Currently, about 54% of it is new text, with about 43k words added and 17k words removed. Two new chapters have been added in between what were previously chapters 5/6 and 9/10.

Because of the extent of the changes, I decided to post the rewritten chapters in chunks. I'll be posting 3 chapters every week until it's all uploaded (about 8 weeks). Then I'll start updating normally.

You can find an archived version of the original fic here.

If you're curious to hear me ramble about what was changed overall and why, see below. (This is not super interesting; it's mostly just a bunch of personal reflection that I struggled to organize into anything coherent.)

what changed (broadly):

Improved pacing (hopefully) and characterization (hopefully)

Added two new chapters

Removed or revised setup for things I've scrapped

Added setup for things I have planned

Adjusted tone in a lot of areas

ok what actually changed

no more jmart

What

ok yes, but that's been true for a while. that's not actually the main reason I decided to rewrite it.

At the heart of it, it's just that I realized the story I was writing in 2024 was not the same story I started writing in 2021. My plans for it kept changing even as I was writing it originally, then even more when I came back to it last year, and now it's something entirely different.

I wrote a long thing explaining how it's changed and the different iterations it has gone through, but ultimately, it pretty much boils down to "I started writing a 'Martin saves Jon from an abusive relationship with Elias' fic four years ago and then became more interested in the J/E relationship and wanted to develop that further." I was unhappy with the ending I had originally planned, which was going to be a fairly generic sort of fix-it with Elias ending up dead and JMart riding into the sunset.

I'm not going to spoil exactly what I have planned, but I think it's more satisfying? To me, at least. I'm not writing out Martin either; he still plays a pretty big role here.

Anyway, I could've kept most of what I had written and still made it work. But I started looking at how much I had left to do, and if I was going to spend multiple years on an agere fic of all things, then I at least wanted an end product I could be somewhat proud of.

I originally took it down and told myself I would give myself one day to revise each chapter. That was in November.

Anyway, even after re-writing it, I still feel like it's not the kind of fic I would write nowadays. I did not set out to write a novel-length magnus archives age regression fanfiction. I would never set out to write a novel-length magnus archives age regression fanfiction. It just kind of happened. It's an extremely bizarre piece of writing that has only turned out this way because it has been torn apart and put back together so many times. So why not just scrap it and write something new? Because this stupid fic has cursed me and I can never escape it, for one thing. But I also just have a sentimental attachment to it, I think.

I started it during a strange time in my life (graduated during the beginning of covid, had a shitty office job, was trying to decide whether to go to grad school or not). Writing this fic got me active in fandom again, encouraged me to start drawing again, I ended up meeting a lot of my very close friends because of it, etc. I think it sort of gave me a creativity and confidence boost that directly or indirectly affected a bunch of other things in my life. Thinking about what I've accomplished since 2021 is insane. I started and finished grad school, I completed an internship and a year-long contract job, I've moved three times, I have products I helped design actively sitting on retail shelves rn. I'm getting off topic.

Will I finish it? I hope so. I'm planning on it, I have the next few chapters drafted and the rest of the fic outlined. Maybe it'll take me another 2 years, idk. But I'm going to try.

Thanks for reading my weird ass fic.

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Over-engineering my rewrite process

I figured it would be fun to document some methods I came up with to track my writing process.

1. Keeping track of how much has been rewritten

I really wanted a way to calculate how much of my fic had changed, and bizarrely, I couldn't find any pre-existing program or website that would just let me chuck two word documents into it and give me the number of words removed vs words added and the % difference.

I noticed that diffchecker came very close to what I wanted, but it didn't actually tally up the words. It just gave you a side by side comparison with the changes highlighted

I noticed, though, that Diffchecker has an API, and you can use it to generate html files.

My coding abilities are barely above "hello world" but I manage to cobble together a Python script that takes two docx files (or a batch of them, if they have a consistent naming scheme), converts them to txt, and sends them to the diffchecker API. Then it just tallies up the # of words highlighted in red or green, and returns:

original word count

revised word count

# of words removed

# of words added

% changed (added words / revised words)

Then it spits it all out into a CSV:

(ignore 9.5 in there, i had to rig some stuff to make the calculations accurate bc I moved some existing stuff to a new chapter)

And then I just copy/paste that into my nicely formatted Google Sheets spreadsheet:

This made it a lot easier to keep track of how much I was actually writing.

(If anyone is interested in this script, let me know and I can try to clean it up for general use and upload it somewhere. It's a very bare-bones program.)

2. Keeping track of my status per chapter

I have 7 different states a chapter can be in:

And a spreadsheet where I can keep track of what status each chapter is in, along with links to the chapters themselves for easy navigation:

And a filter view that collapses it for a nice-looking summary:

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sleepy hangout discord server

hello, I figured I should make a ✨new post✨ for this server bc we still have people join occasionally! and I never did a good job of explaining what the server actually IS, lol

This server started in 2021 and is primarily centered around TMA agere fic/art/headcanons/etc. (though to be honest it is about 95% baby jon content right now). and also just a general hangout bc I like making friends

It went mostly silent for a few years before being revived a few months ago. while it's still a small sever, it is still active and I love seeing new faces in there

lurking is also 100% okay, I post some art & writing snippets there I haven't posted elsewhere bc it's the place I feel the most comfortable talking about agere content. I also post fic updates and love bouncing ideas off people

rules are very simple:

1. be nice

if you're rude about what other people write/draw/ship/etc. this is not the right server for you.

2. 18+ only

3. sfw content only

(discussion of adult topics is fine but smut belongs elsewhere)

invite here!

Check out the Sleepy Hangout community on Discord - hang out with 35 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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new chapter be upon ye

[joneliaszine]

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Please spread the word, and we hope to see you soon!

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thinking about the way i write age regression, specifically with jon. idk if anyone finds this interesting but I will post it here anyway. also some headcanons

age:

it's not a strict thing in terms of age. he doesn't have a specific age he regresses to and he doesn't really think about it in those terms

that being said, he does slide up and down on a sort of age scale, in terms of his wants and needs. some days he wants to be baby, just nap all day and drink from a bottle. some days he's "older" and prefers more active play like drawing or playing with toys

his default state is mostly comparable to a five or six year old but again, it's not exact

terminology:

he doesn't have a name/term for what he experiences, which is why I avoid the term "age regression" in my actual writing.

(though i'll use "regressed" occasionally, because there's only so many ways I can write "slipping into a softer headspace" before it gets annoying)

as far as jon knows he's the only weirdo that experiences this.

self-awareness:

jon still knows he's an adult and never fully loses the self-consciousness about it. He's aware of how others perceive him, is aware of the age of the body he's in and wouldn't enjoy being treated otherwise

(I bring this up because he's not role-playing, exactly. He doesn't want to be told things like "when you grow up"... if that makes sense. he's still aware he's an adult, he doesn't want to feel like he's playing pretend)

he's self-aware enough that if he were to be in public or meet someone else while regressed he could mostly hold it together, or at least be aware that the way he's acting is strange

he can pull himself out of regression if he's not too upset, but if it's a trauma reaction it'll be a lot more difficult.

behavior:

mostly, he's just more emotional, has a big need for comfort/reassurance and operates on a sort of kid-logic (takes things very literally... part of this is just un-masking tbh. he's already bad at subtlety but way worse when he feels small)

his thoughts are simpler and more straightforward—not that he doesn't have the capacity to think things through, but big complex things are scary and it's nicer to not have to think about them for a bit

he doesn't really do baby-talk, but he stutters more and talks a bit simpler

he has more difficulty talking when regressed, though. he's mostly pretty quiet and when he wants to talk sometimes his words get jumbled up or it takes him a bit to get through a sentence.

(especially when he's upset, he'll shut down and won't/can't talk)

he cries a lot lmao. i write him crying so much i had to go back and edit the fic to cut down on the amount of times i write him bursting into tears

he can be a bit of a brat, especially when he thinks his cg is being unfair. he will remember a random comment or time when he was allowed to do something and use it to argue for weeks afterwards

likes

hugs! most of the time. with permission. he does not like being touched without warning and it is 100% possible to make him cry by catching him off-guard with touch

comfy clothes. big soft t-shirts. stealing daddy's clothes

chicken tenders

stuffed animals

coloring, drawing

being swaddled

being read to

soft blankets

enclosed spaces. he will crawl under the couch if you let him.

biting.

dislikes:

doing chores. he is a spoiled brat and doing dishes after he's done eating is literally the end of the world

wearing shoes

loud noises

being yelled at :( do not yell at baby

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OMG I FORGOT TO POST THIS NO I got commissioned to draw art for one of my favorite TMA fics!!! (its an agere fic and if you like those I highly recommend it!!! Sleeping Habits - Chapter 1 - outofsync - The Magnus Archives (Podcast) [Archive of Our Own])

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❤️❤️❤️❤️

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wondering if i should make a more general tma/fandom blog and keep this one as writing-specific or just make this a more general blog and keep everything tagged

I don't like splitting stuff up over multiple accounts but I'm a very anxious person and inherently embarrassed as hell about writing agere stuff

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kofi sketch commission for @gronlandic-edit's fic Sleeping Habits! Jon with his little lamb 🥺

ko-fi 💕

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i've been looking at this for 5 hours now

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little guys

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old sketch, not sure if I ever posted this here

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I went back and edited the fic in a few spots, mostly fixing small errors but there were a few parts I partially re-wrote to refine some details/characterization.

Planning on posting the next chapter sometime in the next week. Right now I have it planned out for 38 chapters

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no promises but if anyone is checking this account I did pull out my notes today and I'd like to finish this fic. I think I have a vague plan of how I want it to end but I'll need a while to sort through my notes and refresh my magnus knowledge

basically, I can't promise when I'll update, but it's not abandoned

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update: i have a rough draft of next chapter written, pre-rough-drafts for the next 2 chapters after that, and for the first time since i started this fic an actual plan/outline for how I want to end it. once i started looking through my notes i got sucked into it again 😰

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no promises but if anyone is checking this account I did pull out my notes today and I'd like to finish this fic. I think I have a vague plan of how I want it to end but I'll need a while to sort through my notes and refresh my magnus knowledge

basically, I can't promise when I'll update, but it's not abandoned

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part of the reason this chapter is taking forever is i just keep rewriting huge parts of it. i totally scrapped my first draft and rewrote it entirely, and then there's been tons of changes since then. but it's almost there

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Omg congrats on the internship!!!!

thank you!!