So the Phan version was the original Bluebird, right? Like, I’m pretty sure I read the original straight from the OG authors account but I also vividly remember seeing that Shawn and Mark one come up when I was searching for it when I first read it years ago, and there’s so many versions
(which, the dedication to changing the story to not only fit different people, but pronouns and specific small things is crazy and amazing and just as bonkers as the original author WRITING all that to begin with. So.)
Anyway was the Phan one the original because it just feels right that that would be, like it feels fitting and the others (not that I’ve read much of any, that fic is long as hell, but I have a little bit.) just feel like- well, inserts, y’know? Idk. That was wild and I cannot believe it didn’t get twilight level book fame but ik it’s cause the author wrote it about real people and it would lose something with OC inserts.