#atdas

[sol-s-hine]

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[multiplemike]

Here's a collaboration I did with @td-worrisometruths! She drew the line art of this Scott from her AU (which you should totally start checking out here) and I had the honor of coloring it!! 🌈

[sol-s-hine]

I was able to get some work off my shoulders! (In a really fast ammount of time-) So I should be flexible to draw some stuff here and there now :D

[sol-s-hine]

Your Eclipse's sleeves make me think of waffles

Indeed-

[finaloop]

less than 30 days until the anniversary. getting my old drafts of the later chapters back into ao3 has been a pain (it was a pain the first time also, all the particular formatting makes it tedious) but since we're less than 30 days out and im going to be posting them before or on the anniversary and no later, there's no worry about them getting deleted after 30 days anymore.

the last two chapters are 100% complete (as they have been for. a long time) and the two chapters before that have bits and pieces that still need to be written, basically as i outlined the last time i made an update like this. im just aiming for bare-bones "point a to point b" at this point and anything else is extra; i will not have the last two chapters delayed past the anniversary because the middle two don't want to cooperate. the last two chapters should more than hold together even if the foundation leading up to them is... not weak, but not as strong as it could be.

as for what happens after, i think im gonna leave this blog be for a while, though my inbox will remain open if anyone has anything interesting to add. if i do get ideas for future stuff, though, well. i'll be here. and if anyone else finds ruins i don't already have (or if i find anything) ill always reblog those.

[finaloop]

spending new year's eve working on atdas. making good progress and even better connections on the most important scene. also the recontextualizations.... i was looking for a centerpiece, an emotional finale to draw everything together in parallel with the plot's finale (and with any luck at least be comparable to recovery's final scene). and, well, i think this just about wraps up everything. including a lot of the details that were not previously important beyond details, but now have symbolic weight. so far it has entirely been written to levitation by fewjar and i do not see myself changing the music any time soon.

"it all comes back to you" but also "bigger on the inside" but also "nested within itself" but also "orchestrated your own escape" but also "remembers the ending" but also "there will be no time and no lonely days and another me will take my place and drown while you stroke its cheek"

so many extremely complicated and layered thoughts and emotions but the important part was that they all mattered. all of it was real and all of it mattered. and... well. that's what recovery is all about.

[finaloop]

a year will have gone by as of tomorrow morning when this will be posted, so i guess ill do another atdas progress report of sorts.

the expologue is officially going to be my favorite chapter now because there's no contest anymore. even the tremendous heights of the climax can't compare to the pure symbolic weight behind the final scene. the inexorability of the narrative as a source of comfort is not where i was expecting to take this. the original "ending" waa much more open ending, but the layer of tragedy intertwined with this - the refocusing of who the actual main character was - it just. ohnge.

but also a lot of other scenes that were previously finished have gotten major overhauls. the argument is much more poignant now, though i still might redo its introduction; other scenes are also better optimized.

DEFINITELY gonna cut the dark room subplot entirely, that's going nowhere and with how sharply focused everything else is becoming it just has no place anymore and it's not like it went anywhere anyway.

i still have so much to write but i wanna try to have everything finished and published by the anniversary of the finale. its gonna be hard to get it out in time though - there's so much early shit to write even if i trim a lot of it down.