Hello my loves. 🫶🏽✨
I’m currently writing Chapter 19… 😉💋. Do with that information what you will.
Meanwhile, because apparently I cannot behave, I’ve also been brainstorming ideas for Fault Lines and the TFATWS timeline. Because of course this fic runs on angst, bad decisions, emotional damage, and whatever caffeine adjacent fumes are keeping me upright.
I was researching the time gap between TFATWS and Thunderbolts, which, yes, I know, is me getting way ahead of where Fault Lines currently is. I do this all the time. I sprint ten plotlines into the future, trip over my own foreshadowing, and then future me has to clean up the crime scene.
But it might be my pounding headache talking… because I started thinking about introducing Olivia.
I know I had initially said there would be no Olivia in this fic. But hear me out...
I think it could make things interesting.
Because yes, John and Em are going to distance themselves. Maybe it’s because of Bucky coming back. Maybe it’s because of something else entirely. No spoilers, mostly because I don’t even fully know yet. The plot gremlin is still chewing through the wires.
All I know is that by the time we reach the Thunderbolts timeline, I want John to have his dad arc.
Which means Olivia has to fit somewhere, somehow.
Anyway, I should probably take some ibuprofen and go to bed… except I’m at work, so instead I’m making fictional people suffer in my notes app. As one does.
Should Olivia be part of Fault Lines at all?
🍼 yes, give John his dad arc
💔 no, keep the angst focused on John/Em/Bucky
🤡 you’re getting ahead of yourself again