Hey! I'm not really a fan of Steven Universe anymore but I have still made time to read 12 o Clock at Your Local King Soopers almost every year since I read it in like 2015 lol. It really spoke to me, and despite it being a fanfiction it really could have been its own novel. Just found your tumblr and I will definitely be checking out your other work! You are super talented & I love your style of writing. The way you describe emotion and how you use metaphor is amazing. I can't wait to read your professional stuff.
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That's so sweet, thank you! I'm glad the story touched you, that always means a lot to me to hear. I hope you enjoy my other work!! I try to give as much as I can to every story
I don’t go on twitter that often, but I sometimes go and look up stuff I’ve written just to see what people are saying and y’all.... 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
the idea that I helped some people in their real lives and with their sexuality is absolutely So Much for me, I throw stuff out into the world in the hopes it will connect to others but to think it not only connected to them but helped them is like an overwhelming tidal wave over my head
it’s hard for me to articulate how it makes me feel, but I am both grateful and humbled that I could share my work with the world in that way
Could u do sth king Soopers related for your requestathon? That's my fav fic of yours, maybe some kind of date or an epilogue? Whatever you write will be lovely✨✨✨
Here’s a bonus chapter! :D
It’s from Jaspers perspective, I hope you like it!
12 O’Clock at your Local Disaster
Jasper is a bit of a mess, she tries not to dwell on it.
But confronting her old ex is one thing, being invited to her wedding is another.
Jasper was sitting with her shoulders slumped over and her mouth swishing around bottom shelf brandy and some bad decisions. She still had her work shirt on and the smell of sweat and her last hit of Corrupted X on her tongue.
God, she needed to stop that.
A petite woman sat beside her with a wine glass, also bottom shelf, and her sharp eyes focused on nothing in front of her.
Jasper took a deep breath and doesn’t look at her, “do you love her?”Lapis made a face at her and scrunched up her nose, “what kind of question is that?”“Excuse me, let me try a more reasonable question: what color will the flowers be? How will the weather be?” Her eyebrow twitches and three years of annoyance bubbles up again. Lapis looks ready to stick her tongue out at her.
Jasper takes a deep breath and remembers what doctor Nelson said: a field. A green field and a lot of fucking wildflowers in it.
Lapis sniffs loudly, “blue roses. And green wreaths. It should be sunny.”Jasper took a deep sip and and swallowed with a burning down her throat, “cool.” She rasps and wishes she hadn’t accepted this invitation.
Who still drinks with their ex?
Their worst ex.
She can feel Lapis looking at her, eyes unblinking and something on the tip of her pursed lips.
“I want you to come.”Jasper freezes and her hand stops in midair, her thoughts whirl around like they’re in a toilet bowl, around and around. And down. She turns sharply, “you what?”“I want you to come to the wedding.”Jasper’s lip curls up, “And I want a nosebleed every hour, what’s this?”
“I’m serious!” Lapis says shrilly and then takes a deep breath, “I want to put the past behind me.”“Okay,” Jasper says slowly, “that’s… cool. Inviting me to your wedding. Wow. That’s one way to do it.”“We don’t have to like each other.”“A given.”“But,” Lapis chews on her bottom lip and curls her hand up around nothing, “I want to… move on? Ya know. Not hold onto all this, fuckery.”Jasper gives a slim smile, “fuckery. Do you want strippers at your bachelorette party?”
Lapis raises her eyebrows, she shakes her head in resignation, “I take it you know a girl?”
“I know several girls!”
She rolls her eyes with an exaggerated flourish, “You don’t make this easy.”Jasper swirls her drink around and looks down to the bottom of her glass, “Well, in my defense. You made everything the hardest damn thing in the world.”They exchange a look, a curious and tentative thing, like they were waiting for something. Lapis cracks a smile, her nose wrinkles as her face breaks open, she starts laughing.
Jasper starts laughing as well, she’s not completely sure why. It felt like a dam had broken and maybe they wouldn’t all drown this time like they were kicked out of Noah’s ark early.
They laugh and Jasper holds her side, wiping at her eyes and tossing her head back. “Yes. Alright, I’ll come to your damn wedding.”Lapis shakes her head, “be good.” She snickers again.
“Will, who’s it, that woman I see you hanging around with?” She leans over, “Will she be there?”Lapis blinks, “which one?”“Short pink hair, pretty hot, like in a bird way.”Lapis leans over her drink, “You into birds now?”Jasper shrugs, “I could always use a few more scratch marks.” She winks and Lapis finishes her wine in one swig.
“I’m telling Pearl to step on your feet when we’re there.”Jasper humphs, “Yeah. You always were a great wingman.”Lapis pokes her in the shoulder, “don’t get sentimental on me.”
“I mean,” she scratches the wood of the bar table, “you were never a sweet talker.”“I could if I wanted to!” She defends with a slight hiccup.
“Oh yeah?” Jasper lifts her eyebrows, “so you don’t just make jokes and sleep all day on Peridot’s couch?”Lapis rolls her eyes, “I tell Peridot… things.” Her cheeks flare, “I’m different now.” She says softly, “I’m working on stuff.”
Jasper nods, “good.” She says gruffly, “it’s about time we all work on some shit.”
Like stop returning Homeworld’s calls, like stop going to the clubs at night, like stop messing with her brain and hanging on. Hanging on to something.Lapis reaches over and squeezes her shoulder, “and yes.” She says lowly, “I do.” She lifts her chin up, “I love her. Her weird laugh and her pointy hair and her weird obsessions with boxers and poor choices in CPH ships. I’m there for it.”
Jasper sprouts a small, almost delicate smile on her face, “Oh Lap.” She swigs the rest of her gin down in one gulp. “Maybe there’s hope for us yet. Or you at least.”Lapis snorts, “You too.” She says softly, “we’re both going to get through this, ya know?”“God,” she leans on the table, “when Lapis Lazuli is giving me a pep talk I really have hit rock bottom.”Lapis whaps her on the back of the head, “get your shit together. Come to my wedding.”Jasper leans back on the bar stool, her head lulled back and thoughts churning. She closes her eyes, “so you really love her?”“Like mold loves caves.”“K.”“And Billy Elliot loved dance.”“I get it.”“I’m gay as hell is the point. For her.”“Cheers to that.”They clink their empty glasses and Jasper thinks that maybe it really would work out, even after the world burned and they almost destroyed each other in the night.
She walks Lapis Lazuli home and watches her kiss her fiance at the door and tell her something, she’s not sure what. Jasper feels a little lighter, maybe she’d keep moving forward too.
She turns around and kicks a can down the road, she had to.
I’ve been calling the heroines ‘Mikki and Gavi’ but it suddenly struck me for it be ‘Mikki & Ash’ with Lapis=Mikki and Peridot=Ash
I also am struggling with the (new) title too, like ‘Sleepless in Aisle Nine’ (clean but a lil boring), Dairy Aisle Insomnia (tho only Mikki/Lapis has actual insomnia), Midnight Neon Grocery Girls (a mouthful?), Supermarket Redeye, or ‘Minimart Limbo of the 4am Kind’
hey oh my gosh okay so ages ago I was reading lapidot fanfics on Ao3 because what better way is there to spend my time honestly and I found this one story, '12 O'Clock at Your Local King Soopers' by none other than you and it was so good omg and I loved it and it actually had a happy ending ('We Deserve a Soft Landing Love' made me cry) and it was just like, the kind of fanfic I always look for and gosh I loved it (it's very late so this is messy sorry thank you so much!!! <33)
aw, thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it :)
I love when it can touch people, I am pretty happy what I got to do with that fic and make something sweet
hi wanna hear a fun fact, i was just bored and looking at a bag of my mom's pills that she picked up from the pharmacy and it had a list of kroger co companies or something and one of them was king soopers and. i literally. i did not know king soopers was a real place i thought you had invented some fake store name for your fic. i have honestly never seen or heard of king soopers in real life and i literally thought you made it up.
you’ve come across one of my Biggest Regrets in Naming, I genuinely thought King Soopers were a universal thing since they’re on every other block in CO, but they are not
but lol, nah, I did not make the place up, it’s a general/grocery store and has good stuff, but a reputation for Not Great Workers haha
