(Apologies for poor grammar ahead)
I’m back and I have finished WMPTMM!! (I wanted to use purple but pink is more legible I think)
I actually finished it a couple days ago but you had just replied to something else I sent so I just didn’t want to spam your blog or seem pushy or anything. But anyways, now I kind of understand what you meant by seeing your old writing and feeling like you could always write better now because WOW. Like I loved your old fics but reading this one I was actually like, I don’t even have the words to describe. And I’m not saying that just to say that either.
I think the first fanfic I read for Percabeth was on Wattpad a whileee back, and it was also a kind of enemies to lovers/fwb fic, and I remember reading it over the summer and like coming home every day excited to read it (lmao I sound like a no life but that was the funny part like I would spend the whole day with my friends but reading the fic was the highlight of my day). Like I was obsessed and I had a very specific feeling while reading it, like it was so captivating and l was so engrossed but I had to pause and take like a YouTube break every other paragraph or just pace around lmao because it was so stressful 😭 But the reason I bring that up is because until now, years later, I had never found a fic that made me feel the same way while reading and that was such a page turner (or as much as one can be online and without pages haha). First of all, the dialogue is so funny and its improved so much from older works (I hope that doesn’t come off as like judgy) because there was never anything wrong with any of the other dialogue, but the dialogue in Wreck My Plans was such a step up and was like whoa! Like this is so good, this feels so real, this is so perfect. Also omggg like the way Percy and Annabeth’s relationship progressed and changed and the pacing of it. I feel like I said this about another fic, but that’s just something you do really well so there I said it again. I’m not gonna lie though I got so scared a few times, because I was happy with what was happening, and then I saw the slider only like midway through the page and was thinking “there’s so much left what could go wrong”. Because before I realized chapter 3 would be more of an epilogue, I thought it was just more of the main plot and so I was nervously like “what could possibly happen next”…very fun to read though either way.
Also enemies to lovers or like friends with benefits tropes are my faveeee and when they are combined it’s just so perfect, and Percabeth is my favorite ship ever ever ever so I loved everything about this. I also was a huge MHA fan so I actually thought that that’s what the whole hero-agency-universe was inspired from, but based on your notes I guess not, but anyways every element of this was so enjoyable and made me so happy. I love Annabeth as a character so so so much and (as I might have said before idk) I love how you portray her, she’s very messy but very good and (well she’s fictional I guess but this is how I view her) cares very deeply and I feel like sometimes people do not write her that way and so I just don’t interact with those works. Lmao I’m struggling to find a way to word these things without sounding like a parasocial fan of her AND without spoiling AND without disrespecting other peoples work or opinions. But anyways. I love her to death and she’s my favorite ever so this fic was so beautiful because she got her ending omg 🥹🥹🥹 Like she’s a real person to me actually I have tears in my eyes thinking about it I want her to be happy 🥹
Sorry this is getting long but I just have so many things I loved about it and reading WMP was so fun like I haven’t had real books or like updated fics that I’ve enjoyed reading (that I haven’t read before) so it felt like finding treasure and Wreck My Plans is very dear to me now.
+ Ooh also about the dialogue, I like how it’s punctuated exactly how it would be spoken. Like that kind of sounds like a ‘no duh’ thing, but the dashes and the comma placement made it fun. I don’t usually read stuff aloud, but sometimes the ADHD kind of kicks in and I’m just rereading the same few lines without actually reading it, so then I have to read aloud to get back on track, and the way you wrote the conversations made it very fun because it felt like a very realistic interaction.
Also, separate note but kind of related, I think when the last like Percy Jackson centric book is out I’ll like cry because those books were such a hugeee part of my childhood and even now, I haven’t reread them in a bit but the whole universe and all the art inspired by it has been so cool to see and has gotten me through many difficult times in my life and now it’s over 😔 But idk if this makes sense but your writing felt so in character to me and was so fun to read it’s lowk my cannon now like HoO was not real like Here Comes the Sun was it wdym?? I hope you continue writing (I mean in general like not specifically on ao3 just as much as you want) because your writing is such gold. Aw I’m tearing up. This fic meant so much to me and you did a fantastic job, thank you!
holy shit, first off thanks for such a long and detailed message, i had to bust out the laptop to answer this because there's so much i want to say! also i love the text colors. the pink is sooo cute.
(also dw about being pushy and sending messages, i love getting them haha)
THANK YOUUUU thank youuuuu for noticing my dialogues, i love writing it and i try to take it v seriously!! and thank you for calling out the punctuation!!! i do often wonder if i spam ellipses or the em dash too much and i know some dumbass out there is probably thinking i use AI because of it but i feel like that's just how people talk, or at least thats just how i talk? like i change routes midway through sentences and go off on tangets so it just feels appropriate to have those kinds of breaks. super happy that you enjoyed it and that it added something to your reading experience!!
i am ALSO a huge fan of the enemies-to-lovers dynamic, and it's interesting that you praise my pacing because i always feel like i rush things LOL. i think part of that is because i'm just writing longer and longer fics and i often chain myself into making them oneshots, and these days i do seem to be hitting the character limit more often than not. i need to get rid of my fear of splitting things into chapters ORRR ao3 can have mercy on me and increase the character limit. hoping for ao3 to cave first im ngl
but anyway yeees i love the enemies-to-lovers and i love a good ol' fashioned friends-w-benefits and i basically slammed like 5 tropes into this fic HAHA. you were right in assuming the agency structure is loosely based off of BNHA/MHA, that was a huge inspiration and i def have it in one of my old tumblr notes for this fic! but it's also got little bits from the boys/the mcu/any kind of modern superhero flick, really. and i definitely did my best to give it some of my own flairs as well just so that it feels fresh.
i 100% agree w/ you on annabeth. i love percy dearly but there's something about annabeth that makes me absolutely adore her to pieces. she's a very real character to me and i love how she's a little bit prideful, a little jealous, and a little messy too, just like you said, all while having a good heart at the end of it all. i do not know how people dislike her and villainize her, she's my absolute fave and i feel like i relate to her a lot even though my life is as far from hers as can be. i think my portrayal of her stems from a lot of very real emotions and experiences that i've had — not even sure if i'm staying true to the character rick has written her to be anymore but i really enjoy putting her through an absolute emotional blender and then having to piece her way back to the top. i tend to do this in a LOT of my fic OOOOOOPSSSIIEEEES but i do it because i love her i swear!!
wmptmm has definitely become a special fic to me because of the annabeth in this fic and how she really goes through it trying to find herself and rediscovering her motivations for why she does what she does, i think it's as much about that as the percabeth of it all. idk i just love my girl man
i have...admittedly not read the new pjo books. i read a bit of the first one but not the others and i actually have no clue which one we're on at the moment, but you're right, it will be very bittersweet once rick retires percy's pen for good. i'm very critical of him in recent times but i do love the original pentalogy + the hoo pentalogy very much, even with all their flaws. i've touched on this before but i really have no clue if my characters are in-character anymore because canon feels so different these days, but these characters have become very much a safe space for me. i love writing them whenever the mood strikes me and i do have a bunch of fics planned, though i have no idea when they'll be released. needless to say — i dont think i'll ever stop writing, because it makes me happy and it seems to make a lot of you happy, too. and that's all that matters :)
thank you for the lovely message, i was grinning ear-to-ear at work as i read it and i'm sure my colleagues all think i'm crazy. thank you thank you thank you i hope you have the best day ever, sending hugs!!!
